Recently added articles from Visual Culture in Britain:
'Telling decoratively': Ben Nicholson's 'white reliefs' and Debates around Abstraction and Modernism in the Home in the Late 1920s and 1930s
Jul 01, 2008; ... 'Decoration is the spectre that haunts modernist painting' or so, at least, Clement Greenberg proposed in 1958.1 And throughout Western European and North American modernism, 'decoration' and 'the decorative' , when viewed through the paradigms of Greenberg's teleological model, have been ...
The Artist in the House of His Patron: Images-within-Images in John Everett Millais's Portraits of the Wyatt Family
Jul 01, 2008; ... In 1838, when the future Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais was nine years old, his family moved to London to further his artistic education. While there, Millais and his older brother William invented a new pastime, which William called 'playing at National Galleries', a game that ...
High Society and Low Life: Celebrities and Social Types in the Portrait Photography of E. O. Hoppé
Jul 01, 2008; ... I may have known what many people looked like from their photographs, but I felt I only knew them when Hoppe had given them a sitting. Cecil Beaton.1 Emil Otto Hoppé was born in Munich in 1878 to a Huguenot family that had originated in Bordeaux. His most serious ambition was to have ...
Living Briefly in an Old Country: Tony Ray-Jones, 1966-70
Jul 01, 2008; ... 'Dedicated to the Insanity of Modernity',1 wrote the photographer Tony RayJones in his crowded Filofax at some point between 1966 and 1970. He was referring to a list of potential subjects - one list of many - which he drew up as auto-guides for his drive to produce a documentary about ...
Dan Graham, Big Brother and the Vicissitudes of Surveillance
Jul 01, 2008; ... During the late 1970s, Dan Graham began to exhibit a series of architectural models that addressed the notion of the suburban home. Although he had already expressed an interest in domestic space with his 'Homes for America/ published in Arfs Magazine in 1966, the models took his ideas further ...