Modern Art

Review: Esteban Buch, Denys Riout, Philippe Roussin (dir.), Réévaluer l’art moderne et les avant-gardes

by Igor Contreras Zubillaga

Transposition. Musique et sciences sociales, nº 2, 2012.

ECOS DO JAZZ-BAND: ILUSTRAÇÕES PORTUGUESAS (1922-1930)

by Manuel Pedro Ferreira

in: A Dança e a Música nas Artes Plásticas do Século XX, coord. Margarida Acciaiuoli e Paulo Ferreira de Castro, Lisboa: Edições Colibri / IHA / CESEM, 2012, pp. 75-105

The jazz-band in the 1920s through the eyes of Portuguese artists and writers: dance context, musical style, choice of... more The jazz-band in the 1920s through the eyes of Portuguese artists and writers: dance context, musical style, choice of instruments and race stereotypes. The change in the perception and representation of jazz identity, c. 1925. Artistic strategies and social critique in the drawings of Bernardo Marques: from Art-Deco to Grosz-influenced Expressionism.

RESIN SCULPTURES BY JASON CAREY

by Jason Carey

The Return of Beauty: Purity and the Neo-Classical Foundation of Modern Art

by Peter Sonderen

ΣΥΜΜΕΙΚΤΑ. Collection of Papers Dedicated to 40th Anniversary of the Institute for Art History, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade (Edited by Ivan Stevovic), forthcoming May 2012

by Ivan Stevovic

Gemeentemuseum Den Haag: Mondriaan en De Stijl, nieuwe permanente tentoonstelling

by Tessel Bauduin

Bauduin, T.M. ‘Gemeentemuseum Den Haag: Mondriaan en De Stijl, nieuwe permanente tentoonstelling’. [exh.rev.] De Witte Raaf  26, 155 (2012): “Ondertussen” 8.

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Modern Art Revisited: A Fascination for the Occult. Review of the exhibition L’Europe des esprits ou la fascination de l’occulte, 1750-1950.

by Tessel Bauduin

Bauduin, T.M. ‘Modern Art Revisited: A Fascination for the Occult’. [exh.rev.] all-over Magazin 2 (March 2012): 44-51.

Isamu Noguchi's Utopian Landscapes

by Diana Witcher

Self-Exile and the Career of Marc Chagall

by Kristine Ronan

The Hedgehog Review 7:3 (Fall 2005)

Covers Marc Chagall's early years in Russia in connection with his imagery of homes. Covers Marc Chagall's early years in Russia in connection with his imagery of homes.

In Pursuit of Toyen: Feminist Biography in an Art-historical Context

by Karla Huebner

forthcoming in Journal of Women's HIstory

“Concrete Blonde [Rachel Whiteread],” Chora: Intervals in Architecture and Philosophy, vol. 2 (1998), 135–148

by Joanna Merwood-Salisbury

"The Little Magazine as Interdisciplinary Space: Literature and the Visual Arts in The Acorn and The Apple"

by Louise Kane

Published in University of Durham Postgraduate Journal of English (peer-reviewed) in Nov. 2011

This paper explores the conflation of literature and visual art within two early twentieth century periodicals: The... more This paper explores the conflation of literature and visual art within two early twentieth century periodicals: The Acorn and The Apple. I use McGann's notion of "bibliographical codes" to examine how it is the material, physical textuality of both periodicals that serves to construct the disctinct type of interdisciplinary modernism that runs through their pages.

Repliche, copie, bozzetti e modelletti: appunti a margine di un’esposizione

by Gabriele Caiazza

published in: L’Anima e il Mondo. Arte sacra dal XIV al XVIII secolo (a cura di R. Costantini), catalogo della mostra (Cividale del Friuli, 7 marzo – 30 settembre 2010), Cividale del Friuli (UD) 2010, pp. 27-31

From March 7 to September 30, 2010, the old church of St. John near the convent of St. Mary “in Valle” is hosting the... more From March 7 to September 30, 2010, the old church of St. John near the convent of St. Mary “in Valle” is hosting the exhibition “The Soul and the World. Sacred art from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century”. Among many other contributions, the catalog offers the short essay “Replicas, copies, sketches and ‘modelletti’: notes on the sidelines of an exhibition”: some of the exhibited artworks (mostly unpublished and from private collections) are treated in it, in order to make the reader reflect on the topic of authenticity of artistic products and on the issue – even more complex – of their reproducibility, including preparatory and original (one or more ...) specimens, sketches and small models, replicas and copies, seriation and forgery.

Dal 7 marzo al 30 settembre 2010 la chiesa di San Giovanni annessa all’antico monastero femminile di Santa Maria in Valle ospita la mostra “L’Anima e il Mondo. Arte sacra dal XIV al XVIII secolo”: il relativo catalogo offre, tra molti altri contributi, il breve saggio “Repliche, copie, bozzetti e ‘modelletti’: appunti a margine di un’esposizione”, nel quale si ripropongono alcune delle opere esposte (perlopiù inedite e appartenenti a collezioni private) allo scopo di fare riflettere il lettore sull’importante tema dell’autenticità dei prodotti artistici e sull’ancor più complessa questione della loro riproducibilità, fra esemplari preparatori e originali (uno o più...), bozzetti e ‘modelletti’, repliche e copie, seriazione e falsificazione.

Storicità di Gustavo Giovannoni e del suo 'diradamento edilizio'. [Historicity of Gustavo Giovannoni and of his 'building reduction']

by Piero Cimbolli Spagnesi

In: Gustavo Giovannoni. Riflessioni agli albori del XXI secolo. Atti della giornata di studio in onore di Gaetano Miarelli Mariani, 1928-2002 (Roma, 26 giugno 2003). A cura di M.P. Sette; pp. 41-56. ISBN 88-7597-372-5

La túnica de José

by Fernando Bonete Vizcaino

Un breve comentario de la obra de arte "La túnica de José" del pintor barroco Diego Velázquez; se analiza su... more Un breve comentario de la obra de arte "La túnica de José" del pintor barroco Diego Velázquez; se analiza su contexto histórico, técnica y contenido compositivo, intencionalidad pictórica...

Andy Warhol's Jewish Minyan

by Darrelyn Gunzburg

A minyan is the required quorum of ten Jewish adults necessary to perform various Jewish obligations, most commonly... more A minyan is the required quorum of ten Jewish adults necessary to perform various Jewish obligations, most commonly that of public prayer. This gathering of ten was said to create a divine presence. Technically a minyan is an all-male enclave; however, according to many non-Orthodox streams of Judaism it is permissible to embrace adult females in the count. The ‘Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century’ exhibition by Andy Warhol (1928–87), one of the preeminent figures in American Pop art of the late 20th century,does this very thing metaphorically. The portraits include three women: celebrated French actress Sarah Bernhardt (1844–1923); Israel’s fourth Prime Minister and one of the founders of the State of Israel, Golda Meir (1898–1978); and avant-garde American writer, poet and playwright Gertrude Stein (1874–1946).

This is a review of the exhibition at the Coach House at Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire, in late 2011.

'Nine Warhols Waiting ... '

by Darrelyn Gunzburg

On three occasions I have been privileged to interview people who have been involved with revealing major lost or... more On three occasions I have been privileged to interview people who have been involved with revealing major lost or unknown art works. In 2007 I interviewed Michael Liversidge on his identification of two ‘lost’ Fra Angelico paintings. These panels had been missing from the San Marco altarpiece (c.1438–40) since the Napoleonic occupation of Florence at the end of the 18th century. This interview was published in The Art Book in June 2007 and I felt fortunate and exhilarated to have met an art historian who was so intimately connected with a unique event. Then in December 2010 David Glasser, co-chairman of Ben Uri, London Jewish Museum of Art, stumbled upon an unknown sketch by Marc Chagall entitled Apocalypse in Lilac: Capriccio in the catalogue of leading French auction house Tajan and purchased it for Ben Uri. Again, I was the person who interviewed him about this. When a third such opportunity occurred I began to feel as if I were a magnet for people connected with recovering art works. This article is the story of that third event.

Mudar de século

by Alexandre Pomar

published in Expresso, Lisbon, 2000

As exposições da viragem do Milénio, no MoMA ("Modern Starts", de John Elderfield, e "Making... more As exposições da viragem do Milénio, no MoMA ("Modern Starts", de John Elderfield, e "Making Choices", de Peter Galassi e Robert Storr, 2000), e a inauguração da Tate Modern

Gelegentliche Anmerkungen. Felix Salten schreibt über Gustav Klimt, in: Mattl, Siegfried [Hrsg.]: Felix Salten. Schriftsteller - Journalist - Exilant; [Publikation erscheint anlässlich der Ausstellung "Felix Salten. Schriftsteller - Journalist - Exilant" im Jüdischen Museum der Stadt Wien vom 5. Dezember 2006 bis 18. März 2007, Wien (Holzhausen) 2006, S. 80-85.

by Andrea Winklbauer

Alla ricerca della propria identità

by Gabriele Caiazza

published in: József Rippl-Rónai. Un artista ungherese nell’Europa fin de siècle (a cura di R. Costantini), catalogo della mostra (Cividale del Friuli, 14 maggio – 2 ottobre 2011), Cividale del Friuli (UD) 2011, pp. 11-29

In the old church of St. John of the nunnery of St. Mary “in Valle” (Cividale del Friuli, Udine, Italy) from May 14 to... more In the old church of St. John of the nunnery of St. Mary “in Valle” (Cividale del Friuli, Udine, Italy) from May 14 to October 2 2011 is hosting the art exhibition “József Rippl-Rónai. An Hungarian artist in the fin de siècle Europe”. Its catalog offers a lot of interesting contributions, such as the essay “Searching his own identity”: the author presents some of the exhibited artworks (mainly from private collections and unpublished) in order to highlight the similarities and the differences in the career paths and in the lives of some versatile “masters of color” working in Central Europe in nineteenth and twentieth century.

Nell’antica chiesa di San Giovanni del monastero femminile cividalese di S. Maria in Valle, dal 14 maggio al 2 ottobre 2011 è allestita la mostra “József Rippl-Rónai. Un artista ungherese nell’Europa fin de siècle”: tra altri interessanti contributi, il catalogo dell’esposizione propone il saggio “Alla ricerca della propria identità”, nel quale la rilettura di alcune delle opere esposte (in gran parte provenienti da collezioni private e inedite) consente di mettere in evidenza le convergenze e le divergenze nei percorsi lavorativi ed esistenziali di alcuni poliedrici “maestri del colore” attivi nella Mitteleuropa tra l’Ottocento e il Novecento.