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Exhibition Review
Near Life: The Gipsformerei – 200 Years of Casting Plaster. James-Simon-Galerie, Berlin
03/2020 | 1404 | 162
Pages: 250-251
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Reviewer:
Marchand, Eckart (Marchand, Eckart)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
James-Simon-Galerie, Berlin, Germany
subjects:
Chipperfield, David / Gipsformerei (plaster cast workshop), Berlin, Germany / Plaster casts / Copies / Human figure / Drawings / Paintings / Academies / Sculpture / Reproductions
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Near Life: The Gipsformerei – 200 Years of Casting Plaster James-Simon-Galerie, Berlin 30th August 2019–1st March | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
23. Installation view of Near Life: The Gipsformerei – 200 Years Gipsformerei at James- Simon-Galerie, Berlin, 2019–20 (photograph David von Becker).
Attributed works:
24. Wall in the studio, by Adolph Menzel. 1852. Oil on paper on panel, 61 by 44 cm. (Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin; photograph J rg P. Anders).
Exhibition Review
A century of figurative British painting
05/2018 | 1382 | 160
Pages: 423-425
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Reviewer:
Cahill, James (Cahill, James; Cahill, J.)
Subjects
artists:
Bacon, Francis, 1909-1992 / Freud, Lucian / Kitaj, R. B. / Auerbach, Frank / Bomberg, David / Sickert, Walter / Soutine, Chaim / Giacometti, Alberto / Spencer, Stanley / Coldstream, William Menzies / Uglow, Euan / Andrews, Michael / Brown, Cecily / Paul, Celia / Saville, Jenny / Yiadom-Boakye, Lynette, b. 1977 / Mead, Dorothy
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings
museums and institutions:
Tate Britain, London, Great Britain
places:
Great Britain / London
subjects:
British painting / Portraits / Figure studies / Human figure / Figure paintings / Figurative art / Life drawings / Realism / Existentialism
Illustrations
Attributed works:
26. Black nude, by Francis Newton Souza. 1961. Canvas, 181.5 by 121 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; exh. Tate Britain, London).
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27. The deer park, by Michael Andrews. 1962. Oil on board, 214 by 244.5 cm. (Tate Britain, London; exh. Tate Britain, London).
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28. Reclining figure, by Dorothy Mead. c.1954. Canvas, 92 by 122 cm. (The Sarah Rose Collection; exh. Tate Britain, London).
Book Review
John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1914–1925: The Complete Paintings, Volume IX. By Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray
07/2017 | 1372 | 159
Pages: 564-565
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Reviewer:
Simpson, Marc (Simpson, Marc)
Subjects
artists:
Sargent, John Singer
dates:
1910-1919 / 1920-1929
subjects:
American painting (United States of America) / Landscapes (visual works) / Catalogues raisonnés / Human figure / Corpora (catalogues)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
46. Fish weirs, by John Singer Sargent. 1922 (Worcester Art Museum, Worcester MA)
Exhibition Review
Medardo Rosso; In Part. Milan
08/2015 | 1349 | 157
Pages: 567-568
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Reviewer:
Cahill, James (Cahill, James; Cahill, J.)
Subjects
artists:
Rosso, Medardo
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Milan, Italy
museums and institutions:
Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
places:
Milan / Italy
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
subjects:
Fragments / Human figure
Illustrations
Attributed works:
54. Ruffiana (The procuress), by Medardo Rosso. 1883 (Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Milan)
Attributed works:
55. Ecce puer (Behold the young boy), by Medardo Rosso. 1906 (Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Milan)
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56. Capigliatura femminile, by Domenico Gnoli. 1965 (Fondazione Prada, Milan)
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57. Teach, by Charles Atlas. 1992-98 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; exh. Fondazione Prada, Milan)
Exhibition Review
Theatres of the body
09/2014 | 1338 | 156
Pages: 615-617
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Reviewer:
White, Celia (White, Celia)
Subjects
artists:
Abramovic, Marina / Atkins, Ed, b. 1982
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Hayward Gallery, London, Great Britain / Serpentine Gallery, London, Great Britain
museums and institutions:
Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London, Great Britain
places:
England / London
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Human figure
subjects:
Sculpture
Illustrations
Attributed works:
46. Installation view of The Human Factor, Hayward Gallery, London, 2014, showing 4 women, by Thomas Hirschhorn. 2008. Perspex, wood, cardboard, polyurethane foam, paint, neons, printed matter, tape, transparencies, felt pen, dummies and wigs, 223 by 306 by 81 cm. (Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich).
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47. Installation view of The Human Factor, Hayward Gallery, LOondon, 2014, showing Foto (photo), by Martin Honert. 1993. Epoxy resin, wood and paint, figure height 100 cm., table 79 by 73 by 123 cm. (Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main).
Attributed works:
48. Still from Ribbons, by Ed Atkins. 2014. Three-channel HD video, 13 mins. 19 secs. (CABINET, London, and Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin; exh. Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
49. Portrait of Marina Abramovic conducting a rehearsal for Boléro at l'Opéra national de Paris, 2013. (Photograph Rahi Rezvani, Paris, 2013).
Book Review
Babembe Sculpture
11/2010 | 1292 | 152
Pages: 753
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Reviewer:
Picton, John (Picton, John)
Subjects
places:
Congo
print:
African sculpture
subjects:
Sculpture / African / Human figure / Fetish figures
subjects:
Wood sculpture
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Babembe Sculpture | author: Lecomte, Alain , author: Lehuard, Raoul
Publication Received
Michelangelo and the reinvention of the human body
11/2005 | 1232 | 147
Pages: 765
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Reviewer:
Martineau, Jane (Martineau, Jane; Martineau, Jane; M., J.T.)
Subjects
artists:
Michelangelo
print:
Michelangelo
subjects:
Biographies / Human figure / Italian sculpture
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Michelangelo and the reinvention of the human body | author: Hall, James
Publication Received
Body, Place, and Self in Nineteenth-Century Painting
02/2002 | 1187 | 144
Pages: 115
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Reviewer:
Shone, Richard (Shone, Richard; S., R.; Shone, Richard)
Subjects
dates:
1850-1919
print:
Nineteenth-century / Paintings
subjects:
Paintings / Human figure / Interior views
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Body, Place, and Self in Nineteenth-Century Painting | author: Sidlauskas, Susan
Publication Received
Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form. Graphic Works 1895-1972
02/2001 | 1175 | 143
Pages: 102
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Subjects
artists:
Picasso, Pablo
dates:
1900-1949 / 1950-1959 / 1960-1969
places:
France / Spain
subjects:
Modern Art / Paintings / Drawings / Human figure
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form. Graphic Works 1895-1972 | author: Doschka, Roland , author: Picasso, Pablo
Book Review
Leonardo as a Physiognomist: Theory and Drawing Practice
03/1995 | 1104 | 137
Pages: 188-189
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Reviewer:
Holberton, Paul (Holberton, Paul)
Subjects
artists:
Leonardo da Vinci
dates:
1480-1519
places:
Italy
subjects:
Art theory / Human figure / Caricatures
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Leonardo as a Physiognomist: Theory and Drawing Practice | author: Kwakkelstein, Michael W.
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