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Book Review
Surrealists in New York: Atelier 17 and the Birth of Abstract Expressionism
12/2023 | 1449 | 165
Pages: 1372–1373
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Reviewer:
Rhodes, Colin (Rhodes, Colin)
Subjects
artists:
Hayter, Stanley William / Pollock, Jackson / Motherwell, Robert / Baziotes, William / Bourgeois, Louise
places:
New York / Paris
styles:
Avant-garde / Surrealism / Abstract Expressionism
subjects:
Atelier 17, Paris, France
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subjects:
Surrealists in New York: Atelier 17 and the Birth of Abstract Expressionism By Charles Darwent. 264 pp. incl. 93 b. & w. ills. (Thames and Hudson, London and New York, 2023), £25. ISBN 978–0–500–09426–6. | :
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Attributed works:
5. Centauresse, by Stanley William Hayter. 1944. Colour engraving and soft-ground etching, 28.6 by 23.2 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
Book Review
Radical Art and the Formation of the Avant-Garde
08/2023 | 1445 | 165
Pages: 925-926
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Reviewer:
Green, Christopher (Green, Christopher)
Subjects
subjects:
Art theory / Avant-garde / Art history
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subjects:
Radical Art and the Formation of the Avant-Garde By David Cottington. 384 pp. incl. 56 col. + 8 b. & w. ills. (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2022), £30. IBSN 978–0–300– 16673–6. | :
Exhibition Review
Futurism and Europe: The Aesthetics of a New World
08/2023 | 1445 | 165
Pages: 906–908
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Reviewer:
Kwartler, Talia (Kwartler, Talia)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
media:
Paintings / Photographs / Design
museums and institutions:
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
subjects:
Futurism / Avant-garde / Modernism / De Stijl / Constructivist / Bauhaus
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Futurism and Europe: The Aesthetics of a New World Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo 29th April–3rd September | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
19. The new city. Detail, by Antonio Sant’Elia. 1914. Pencil and ink on paper, 52.5 by 51.5 cm. (Pinacoteca Civica, Como; exh. Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo).
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20. Unique forms of continuity in space, by Umberto Boccioni. 1913, cast in 1972. Bronze, 117 by 30.5 by 87.5 cm. (Kröller- Müller Museum, Otterlo).
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21. Installation view of Futurism and Europe: The Aesthetics of a New World at the Kröller- Müller Museum, Otterlo, 2023. (photograph Studio Goedewaagen Fotografie).
Exhibition Review
Victor Brauner: Inventions and Magic
05/2023 | 1442 | 165
Pages: 554-556
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Reviewer:
Richardson, Michael (Richardson, Michael)
Subjects
artists:
Brauner, Victor
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
National Museum of Art Timișoara, Timișoara, Romania
subjects:
Romanian School / Surrealism / Avant-garde
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Victor Brauner: Inventions and Magic National Museum of Art Timișoara 17th February–28th May | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
13. Totem of wounded subjectivity II, by Victor Brauner. 1948. Oil on canvas, 91.5 by 72.7 cm. (Centre Pompidou, Paris; ADAGP, Paris; exh. National Museum of Art Timișoara).
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14. The mother of myths, by Victor Brauner. 1965. Oil on canvas and painted wood on plywood, 144 by 200 by 3 cm. (Centre Pompidou, Paris; ADAGP, Paris; exh. National Museum of Art Timișoara).
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15. Self-portrait, by Victor Brauner. 1931. Oil on wood, 22 by 16.2 cm. (Centre Pompidou, Paris; ADAGP, Paris; exh. National Museum of Art Timișoara).
Book Review
Two Women Patrons of the Russian Avant-Garde: Nadezhda Dobychina and Klavdia Mikhailova
11/2022 | 1436 | 164
Pages: 1170-1170
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Reviewer:
Lodder, Christina (Lodder, Christina; L., C.; Lodder, Christina A.)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Dobychina, Nadezdha / Mikhailova, Klavdia
places:
Saint Petersburg / Moscow
subjects:
Patrons / Art dealers / Art galleries / Russian art / Avant-garde / Art market
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Two Women Patrons of the Russian Avant-Garde: Nadezhda Dobychina and Klavdia Mikhailova By Natalia Budanova and Natalia Murray. 240 pp. incl. 64 col. + 86 b. & w. ills. (Unicorn, London, 2021), £30. ISBN 978–1–913491–27–7. | :
Exhibition Review
Archipenko and the Italian Avant Garde
08/2022 | 1433 | 164
Pages: 809-811
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Reviewer:
Corbett, Cathy (Corbett, Cathy)
Subjects
artists:
Archipenko, Alexander
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Estorick Collection, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Ukrainian art / American art / Italian art / Futurism / Avant-garde
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Archipenko and the Italian Avant Garde Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London 4th May–4th September | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
27. Title unknown [walking], by Alexander Archipenko. c.1919. Pencil and white crayon on grey paper, 57 by 47 cm. (Private collection; exh. Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London).
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28. Form on blue background, by Alexander Archipenko. Inscribed ‘Archipenko 1913/1962’, executed in 1962. Gouache and coloured pencil on blue poster board, 83.8 by 68.6 cm. (Private collection; exh. Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London).
Book Review
Surrealism and Photography in 1930s Japan: The Impossible Avant-Garde
09/2021 | 1422 | 163
Pages: 876-877
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Reviewer:
Fritsch, Lena (Fritsch, Lena)
Subjects
places:
Japan
subjects:
Surrealism / Japanese photography / Avant-garde
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Surrealism and Photography in 1930s Japan: The Impossible Avant-Garde By Jelena Stojković. 272 pp. incl. 10 col. + 44 b. & w. ills. (Routledge, London, 2020), £72. ISBN 978–1–78831–405–3. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
8. Untitled, Japan Photographic Annual, by Matsubara Jūzō. 1936. Photomontage. (Courtesy of Tokyo Photographic Art Museum).
Book Review
German Expressionism: Der Blaue Reiter and its Legacies
03/2021 | 1416 | 163
Pages: 300-301
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Reviewer:
Grasselli, Anne (Grasselli, Anne )
Subjects
artists:
Kandinsky, Wassily / Marc, Franz / Klee, Paul / Werefkin, Marianne
styles:
Expressionism
subjects:
German art / Avant-garde / Blaue Reiter
Reviewed Items
subjects:
German Expressionism: Der Blaue Reiter and its Legacies Edited by Dorothy Price. 208 pp. incl. 27 col. + 13 b. & w. ills. (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2020), £80. ISBN 978–1–5261–2162–2. | :
Book Review
The Marquis de Sade and the Avant-Garde
02/2021 | 1415 | 163
Pages: 178-180
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Reviewer:
Parkinson, Gavin (Parkinson, Gavin)
Subjects
art literature:
Sade, Marquis de, Donatien Alphonse François
subjects:
Avant-garde / Surrealism / Feminism / French art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Marquis de Sade and the Avant-Garde By Alyce Mahon. 296 pp. incl. 44 col. + 56 b. & w. ills. (Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ and Oxford, 2020), £38. ISBN 978–0–691–14161–9. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Illustration from the Marquis de Sade’s Juliette, by Leonor Fini. 1944. Etching made from a photolithograph (Estate of Leonor Fini, Paris).
Book Review
Total Expansion of the Letter: Avant-Garde Art and Literature after Mallarmé
01/2021 | 1414 | 163
Pages: 89-90
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Reviewer:
Green, Christopher (Green, Christopher)
Subjects
art literature:
Mallarmé, Stéphane
artists:
Picasso, Pablo / Braque, Georges / Duchamp, Marcel
subjects:
Poetry / Art theory / Cubist / Dada / Avant-garde
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Total Expansion of the Letter: Avant- Garde Art and Literature After Mallarmé By Trevor Stark. 440 pp. incl. 10 col. + 60 b. & w. ills. (MIT Press, Cambridge MA and London, 2020). | :
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