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Book Review
Artemisia Gentileschi
01/2023 | 1438 | 165
Pages: 90-91
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Reviewer:
Garrard, Mary D. (Garrard, Mary D.)
Subjects
artists:
Gentileschi, Artemisia
subjects:
Italian art / Women artists / Feminism / Gender
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Artemisia Gentileschi By Sheila Barker. 144 pp. incl. 80 col. ills. (Lund Humphries, London, 2022), £30. ISBN 978–1–84822–454–4. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Judith beheading Holofernes, by Artemisia Gentileschi. c.1620. Oil on canvas, 146.5 by 108 cm. (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence; Bridgeman Images).
Exhibition Review
Venice Biennale
07/2022 | 1432 | 164
Pages: 688-691
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Reviewer:
Lloyd, Kathryn (Lloyd, Kathryn)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
places:
Venice
subjects:
Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy / Alemani, Cecilia / Women artists / Gender / Surrealism / Mythology / Politics / Exhibitions
subjects:
Contemporary art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Venice Biennale Various locations, Venice 23rd April–27th November | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Installation view of The Milk of Dreams, Giardini Central Pavilion, Venice, 2022. (Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia; photograph Marco Cappelletti).
Attributed works:
2. Mama #45 from the series Mama, by Aneta Grzeszykowska. 2018. Pigment ink on cotton paper, 50 by 36 cm. (Courtesy Raster Gallery, Warsaw; exh. Giardini Central Pavilion, Venice 2022).
Attributed works:
3. Installation view of The Milk of Dreams, Arsenale, Venice, 2022, showing Brick house, by Simone Leigh. 2019. Bronze, 487.7 by 279.4 by 279.4 cm. (Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia; photograph Roberto Marossi).
Book Review
The Power and Fluidity of Girlhood in Henry Darger’s Art
04/2022 | 1429 | 164
Pages: 425-426
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Reviewer:
Rhodes, Colin (Rhodes, Colin)
Subjects
artists:
Darger, Henry
dates:
1900-1999
subjects:
American art / Gender / Children / Outsider art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Power and Fluidity of Girlhood in Henry Darger’s Art By Leisa Rundquist. 126 pp. incl. 13 b. & w. ills. (Routledge, Abingdon-on-Thames, 2021), £44.99. ISBN 978–1–138–31455–9. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
5. a) Are almost murdered themselves though they fight for their lives typhoon saves them... b) Vivian girls said Glandelinian tent, by Henry Darger. Watercolour and pencil on paper, 55.9 by 223.5 cm. (Museum of Modern Art, New York; Scala Archives).
Exhibition Review
Titian’s Vision of Women
12/2021 | 1425 | 163
Pages: 1184-1186
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Reviewer:
Joannides, Paul (Joannides, Paul; J., P.; Joannides, P. E. A.)
Subjects
artists:
Titian
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
subjects:
Venetian art / Renaissance art / Women / Social history / Gender
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Titian’s Vision of Women Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna 5th October 2021–16th January 2022 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
14. Vulcan surprising Venus and Mars, by Jacopo Tintoretto. c.1555. Oil on canvas, 135 by 198 cm. (Alte Pinakothek, Munich; © bpk / Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlung; exh. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).
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15. Violante, by Titian. c.1517. Oil on poplar panel, 64.5 by 50.8 cm. (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; © KHM-Museumsverband; exh. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).
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16. Lucretia and her husband, by Titian. c.1517. Oil on poplar panel, 82 by 68 cm. (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; © KHM-Museumsverband; exh. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).
Book Review
Poussin’s Women: Sex and Gender in the Artist’s Works
09/2021 | 1422 | 163
Pages: 870-872
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Reviewer:
Beeny, Emily A. (Beeny, Emily A.)
Subjects
artists:
Poussin, Nicolas
subjects:
French art / Seventeenth-century / Women / Goddesses / Saints / Social history / Cultural history
subjects:
Gender / Gaze (art theory) / Gender studies / Iconography
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Poussin’s Women: Sex and Gender in the Artist’s Works By Troy Thomas. 386 pp. incl. 116 col. ills. (Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2020), €119. ISBN 978–94–6372–184–4. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
5. Hymenaeus disguised as a woman during an offering to Priapus, by Nicolas Poussin. c.1634– 38. Oil on canvas, 166.5 by 373 cm. (Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand).
Exhibition Review
Andy Warhol Exhibits: A Glittering Alternative
03/2021 | 1416 | 163
Pages: 270-272
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Reviewer:
Anfam, David (Anfam, David)
Subjects
artists:
Warhol, Andy / Poons, Larry / Oldenburg, Claes
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Museum of Modern Art, Ludwig Foundation (MUMOK), Vienna, Austria
styles:
Pop art / Conceptual art / Minimalism
subjects:
American art / Capitalism / Gender / Homosexuality
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Andy Warhol Exhibits: A Glittering Alternative Museum of Modern Art, Ludwig Foundation (MUMOK), Vienna 25th September 2020–30th May 2021 Defrosting the Icebox. Guesting at mumok: The Hidden Treasures of the Collection of Greek and Roman Antiquities of the Kunsthistorisches Museum and Weltmuseum Vienna Museum of Modern Art, Ludwig Foundation (MUMOK), Vienna 25th September 2020–30th May 2021 Misfitting Together: Serial Formations of Pop Art, Minimal Art, and Conceptual Art Museum of Modern Art, Ludwig Foundation (MUMOK), Vienna 1st July 2020–25th April 2021 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Installation view of Defrosting the Icebox. Guesting at mumok: The Hidden Treasures of the Collection of Greek and Roman Antiquities of the Kunsthistorisches Museum and Weltmuseum at Museum of Modern Art, Ludwig Foundation (MUMOK), Vienna, 2020–21.
Attributed works:
2. Installation view of Andy Warhol Exhibits: A Glittering Alternative at Museum of Modern Art, Ludwig Foundation (MUMOK), Vienna, 2020–21, showing the Marbled Paper drawings, by Andy Warhol. c.1954. Refabricated by mumok under the supervision of Marianne Dobner. (Museum of Modern Art, Ludwig Foundation (MUMOK), Vienna).
Attributed works:
3. Nixe’s mate, by Larry Poons. 1961. Acrylic on canvas, 178 by 285 by 4 cm. (Ludwig Foundation, Vienna; exh. Museum of Modern Art, Ludwig Foundation (MUMOK), Vienna)
Attributed works:
4. Ladies and gentlemen, by Andy Warhol. 1975. Acrylic, silkscreen on canvas, 120 by 80 cm. (Museum of Modern Art, Ludwig Foundation (MUMOK), Vienna; © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York / Licensed by Bildrecht Vienna).
Exhibition Review
Marie Cuttoli: The Modern Thread from Miró to Man Ray
12/2020 | 1413 | 162
Pages: 1098-1101
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Reviewer:
Parrish, Sarah (Parrish, Sarah)
Subjects
art literature:
Exhibition catalogues
artists:
Cuttoli, Marie / Miró, Joan / Man Ray / Braque, Georges / Derain, André / Dufy, Raoul / Corbusier, Le / Léger, Fernand / Lurçat, Jean / Picasso, Pablo / Rouault, Georges
museums and institutions:
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, United States
subjects:
Tapestry (process) / Fashion / Colonialism / Gender / Modernism
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Marie Cuttoli: The Modern Thread from Miró to Man Ray By Cindy Kang. 160 pp. incl. 100 col. ills. (Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, and Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2020), £35. ISBN 978–0– 300–25131–9. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
18. Composition with three figures – Fragment, by Fernand Léger. 1932. Oil on canvas, 144.2 by 114.3 cm. (Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris 2020; exh. Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia).
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19. Rhythmic figures (woman and birds), designed by Joan Miró for Myrbor. 1934. Cotton and wool with silk, 195.6 by 175.3 cm. (Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia; © Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris 2020).
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20. Evening dress, embroidery designed by Natalia Goncharova for Myrbor. c.1926. Silk with silk appliqué and metallic thread and wool yarn embroidery (Philadelphia Museum of Art).
Editorial
Tate Modern at twenty, ‘Burlington Contemporary’ at one
06/2020 | 1407 | 162
Pages: 471
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museums and institutions:
Tate Modern, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Exhibitions / Gender / Race / Contemporary art / Performance artists / Burlington Contemporary
Exhibition Review
Paula Rego: Obedience and Defiance. Modern 2, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
04/2020 | 1405 | 162
Pages: 351-353
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Reviewer:
Thompson, Susannah (Thompson, Susannah)
Subjects
artists:
Rego, Paula
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Great Britain / Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, Great Britain / Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
subjects:
Feminism / Politics / Gender / Fantasy / Fascism / Figurative art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
26. Manifesto (for a lost cause), by Paula Rego. 1965. Acrylic, crayon, graphite and paper glued on canvas, 183 by 152 cm. (Calouste Gulbenkian Museum - Modern Collection, Lisbon;   Paula Rego, courtesy of Marlborough, New York and London; exh. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh).
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27. Untitled no.4, by Paula Rego. 1998. Pastel on paper, 110 by 100 cm. (Private collection;   Paula Rego, courtesy of Marlborough, New York and London; exh. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh).
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28. Painting him out, by Paula Rego. 2011. Pastel on paper mounted on aluminium, 119.4 by 179.7 cm. (Private collection;   Paula Rego, courtesy of Marlborough, New York and London; exh. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh).
Exhibition Review
Turner Prize 2019. Turner Contemporary, Margate
12/2019 | 1401 | 161
Pages: 1057-1059
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Reviewer:
White, Kirsty (White, Kirsty)
Subjects
artists:
Cammock, Helen / Abu Hamdan, Lawrence / Murillo, Oscar / Shani, Tai
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Turner Contemporary, Margate, Great Britain
subjects:
Turner Prize
subjects:
Politics / Prisons / Social history / Installations (visual works) / Film (cinema) / Gender / Feminism
Illustrations
Attributed works:
28. Installation view of the Turner Prize 2019 at Turner Contemporary, Margate, showing The Long Note, by Helen Cammock (2018) (Photograph David Levene; courtesy the artist and Turner Contemporary, Margate).
Attributed works:
29. Installation view of the Turner Prize 2019 at Turner Contemporary, Margate, showing works by Oscar Murillo (Photograph David Levene; courtesy the artist and Turner Contemporary, Margate).
Attributed works:
30. Installation view of the Turner Prize 2019 at Turner Contemporary, Margate, showing DC: Semiramis, by Tai Shani (Photograph David Levene; courtesy the artist and Turner Contemporary, Margate).
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