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Book Review
Art and Modernism in Socialist China: Unexplored International Encounters, 1949–1979
01/2025 | 1462 | 167
Pages: 74
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Reviewer:
Baecker, Angie C. (Baecker, Angie C.)
Subjects
subjects:
Chinese art / Socialism / Modernism
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Art and Modernism in Socialist China: Unexplored International Encounters, 1949–1979 Edited by Shuyu Kong, Julia F. Andrews and Shengtian Zheng. 248 pp. incl. 19 col. + 31 b. & w. ills. (Routledge, New York and London, 2024), £135. ISBN 978–1–03–258529–1. | :
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Gustave Courbet in Brussels: two of his female sitters and their radical social and political circles
05/2021 | 1418 | 163
Pages: 444-447
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Author:
Marechal, Dominique (Marechal, Dominique)
Subjects
artists:
Courbet, Gustave
patrons:
Breyer, Frederic Martin Albert / Breyer (née Van Bruyssel), Fanny / Janné, Laure
places:
Brussels
subjects:
French painting / Portraits / Socialism / Photography / Breyerotype
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Albert Breyer, by Géruzet frères, Brussels. 1873–76. Photograph, 9.7 by 5.6 cm., mounted on card, 10.3 by 6.2 cm. (Private collection; courtesy Francis Sartorius).
Attributed works:
2. Plants, by Albert Breyer. 1839. Breyerotype. (From L. Roosens: ‘Albrecht Breyer, de eerste reflectografie en haar verdere ontwikkeling’, Photohistorisch Tijdschrift 12 (1989), p.88).
Attributed works:
3. Fanny Breyer-Van Bruyssel, by Gustave Courbet. 1858. Oil on canvas, 91.4 by 72.7 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
4. Laure Sanders-Janné, later Laure Fontaine-Janné, by Gustave Courbet. 1858. Oil on canvas, 92 by 75.5 cm. (Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels; photograph J. Geleyns).
Attributed works:
5. Gustave Courbet aged thirty-nine, by Gilbert Louis Radoux. 1858. Albumen silver print, 21.8 by 16.4 cm. (Private collection; from C. Joly, ed.: exh. cat. Courbet-Clergue, rencontre photographique, Ornans (Musée Courbet) 2016–17, p.27).
Exhibition Review
Red Vienna: 1919–1934. Wien Museum MUSA, Vienna
10/2019 | 1399 | 161
Pages: 868-871
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Reviewer:
Opitz, Christian Nikolaus (Opitz, Christian Nikolaus)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Architectural drawings / Architectural models / Sculpture / Paintings / Photographs / Books / Posters
museums and institutions:
Wien Museum, Vienna, Austria
places:
Vienna
subjects:
Architecture / Interiors / Politics / Socialism / Social history
Illustrations
Attributed works:
22. Young man, by Franz Barwig the Elder. 1924–27. Bronze, height 210 cm. (Wien Museum MUSA, Vienna).
Western art unattributed:
21. Work Unit for Gas, Water and Electric Facilities posing before the Karl-Marx-Hof, Vienna. c.1929. Photograph, 13 by 18 cm. (Wien Museum MUSA, Vienna).
Western art unattributed:
23. Franz Cizek’s art class for young people. c.1930. Photograph, 12 by 17 cm. (Wien Museum MUSA, Vienna; inv. no.305.439).
Book Review
Picasso/Marx and Socialist Realism in France, S. Wilson
11/2014 | 1340 | 156
Pages: 764
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Reviewer:
Vernon, Jonathan (Vernon, Jonathan ; V., J.)
Subjects
art literature:
Marxism / Social realism / Art theory / Socialism / Politics
artists:
Picasso, Pablo
places:
France / Paris
subjects:
Communism / Critical Reception
Exhibition Review
Glasnost. London
06/2010 | 1287 | 152
Pages: 425-426
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Reviewer:
Blood, Anne (Blood, Anne)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019 / 1980-1989
places:
London / England
print:
Soviet art
private galleries:
Haunch of Venison, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Soviet art / Russian painting / Russian sculpture / Installations (visual works) / Assemblages / Soviet
subjects:
Socialism
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Glasnost: Soviet Non-Conformist Art from the 1980s | institution: Haunch of Venison
Illustrations
Attributed works:
74. Sleep quietly or rest in peace, by Maria Konstantinov. 1989. Mixed media, 118.1 by 142.3 by 17.7 cm. (Courtesy of Gallerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, and Diehl + Gallery One, Moscow; exh. Haunch of Venison, London).
Attributed works:
75. Dukat, by Eduard Gorokhosky. 1987. Canvas, 81 by 100 cm. (Courtesy of Gallerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, and Diehl + Gallery One, Moscow; exh. Haunch of Venison, London).
Attributed works:
76. Bitsa, by Eduard Gorokhosky. 1987. Canvas, 81 by 100 cm. (Courtesy of Gallerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, and Diehl + Gallery One, Moscow; exh. Haunch of Venison, London).
Book Review
The Arts and Crafts Movement
06/2008 | 1263 | 150
Pages: 417
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Reviewer:
Brockington, Grace (Brockington, Grace)
Subjects
places:
Europe / Russia
print:
Arts and Crafts movement
subjects:
Arts and Crafts movement / Socialism / Social history
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Arts and Crafts Movement | author: Blakesley, Rosalind P.
Publication Received
Picasso: The Communist Years
02/2001 | 1175 | 143
Pages: 102
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Reviewer:
Schubert, Karsten (Schubert, Karsten)
Subjects
artists:
Picasso, Pablo
dates:
1900-1949
places:
France / Spain
subjects:
Modern Art / Paintings / Avant-garde / Politics / Socialism
subjects:
Communism
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Picasso: The Communist Years | author: Utley, Gertje R.
Book Review
Dreams of Happiness: Social Art and the French Left, 1830-1850
07/1994 | 1096 | 136
Pages: 464
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Reviewer:
Alfrey, Nicholas (Alfrey, Nicholas)
Subjects
dates:
1800-1849
places:
France
subjects:
French painting / Social history / Socialism
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Dreams of Happiness: Social Art and the French Left, 1830-1850 | author: McWilliam, Neil
Book Review
Pioneers of Soviet Architecture: The Search for New Solutions in the 1920s and 1930s
02/1989 | 1031 | 131
Pages: 157
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Reviewer:
Lodder, Christina (Lodder, Christina; L., C.; Lodder, Christina A.)
Subjects
dates:
1920-1929 / 1930-1939
places:
Soviet Union / Russia
subjects:
Architecture / Social history / Socialism
subjects:
Russian architecture / Soviet
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Pioneers of Soviet Architecture: The Search for New Solutions in the 1920s and 1930s | author: Khan-Magomedov, Selim O.
Exhibition Review
Hard Times. Manchester, Amsterdam, New Haven
03/1988 | 1020 | 130
Pages: 247-251
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Reviewer:
House, John (House, John; H., J.)
Subjects
dates:
1980-1989
museums and institutions:
Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, Great Britain
places:
England / Manchester
subjects:
Exhibitions / Reviews / Socialism / Victorian / British painting
Illustrations
Attributed works:
59. Seeking Situations, by Ralph Hedley. 1904. 95.6 by 132.7 cm. (Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead; Exh. Manchester City Art Gallery).
Attributed works:
60. Hard Times, by T. R. Lamont. 1861. 78.7 by 63.4 cm. (Christopher Wood; Exh. Manchester City Art Gallery).
Attributed works:
61. One of Our Breadwatchers, by Frederic J. Shields. 1866, Water-Colour. 39.2 by 57.6 cm. (Manchester City Art Gallery; Exh. Manchester City Art Gallery).
Attributed works:
62. Silent Pleading, by Marcus Stone. 1859. 92.1 by 72.1 cm. (Calderdale Museums; Exh. Manchester City Art Gallery).
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