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Lives of the Artists: Nigel Henderson
Louis Henderson on how the work of his great uncle, Nigel Henderson (1917–1985), still haunts the present
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Meyer Schapiro, Abstract Expressionism, and the Paradox of Freedom in Art Historical Description
This article analyses a talk given by the American art historian Meyer Schapiro in 1956 that was broadcast on BBC ...
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Art World, Network and Other Alloway Keywords
The British critic Lawrence Alloway (1926–1990) generated a new vocabulary for American art of the 1960s and 1970s. This ...
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Emerson’s Evolution
British photographer Peter Henry Emerson’s dramatic recantation of his beliefs about photography and art forms a canonical yet perplexing ...
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Merzzeichnung: Typology and Typography
When Kurt Schwitters began making collages in 1918, the initial term he used to describe them was Merzzeichnungen (Merz drawings ...
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‘A Wistful Dream of Far-Off Californian Glamour’: David Sylvester and the British View of American Art
David Sylvester’s criticism from the 1950s and 1960s combined enthusiasm for the vitality of new American art with ambivalence ...
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Anti-Photojournalism: Working Against the Grain
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Exhibition and Reception
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Introduction
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Archiving the Uncollectable: Museum Education and Memory Loss
Memory loss, struggles in communicating our work, changes in mood, apathy, confusion, difficulty in building our own storyline, a failing ...
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Naum Gabo as a Soviet Émigré in Berlin
Naum Gabo’s arrival in Berlin in 1922, which initiated his lifetime emigration from the Soviet Union, has been interpreted ...
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The Craze for Pastel: Essay
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Rembrandt and Reality
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Common Threads
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August Sander’s Portraits of Persecuted Jews
Countering the characterisation of August Sander’s work as politically neutral, Rose-Carol Washton Long argues that the ‘The Persecuted’ and ...
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Muscular Modernism
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New yarns: Tate Etc. Essay: Textiles and Art
Textiles: we wear them every day and take them for granted, but they are more than mere carriers for our ...