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 ...
The Silent Rhetoric of the Body: A History of Monumental Sculpture and Commemorative Art in England, 1720-1770
Jul 01, 2008; ... The Silent Rhetoric of the Body: A History of Monumental Sculpture and Commemorative Art in England, 1720-1770 by Matthew Craske, New Haven and London: Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2008, pp. 528 Thanks to the diverse and energetic research ...
Where the Sea Meets the Land: Artists on the Coast in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Jul 01, 2008; ... Where the Sea Meets the Land: Artists on the Coast in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Christiana Payne, Bristol: Sansom & Company, 2007, pp.216 Christiana Payne's recent book, Where the Sea Meets the Land: Artists on the Coast in Nineteenth-Century Britain, as the title suggests, ...
'Modern Britain 1900-1960: Masterworks from Australian and New Zealand Collections'
Jul 01, 2008; ... 'Modern Britain 1900-1960: Masterworks from Australian and New Zealand Collections', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 15 November 2007-24 February 2008 Modern Britain 1900-1960: Masterworks front Australian and New Zealand Collections, by Ted Gott, Laurie Benson and Sophie ...
AV Festival, Newcastle Gateshead, Middlesbrough and Sunderland, 28 February to 8 Mar 2008
Jul 01, 2008; ... An 'international festival of electronic arts, music and moving image', AV Festival immediately presents the reviewer for this journal with interesting problems. In the first place, the work crosses the boundary between audio and visual, and secondly, electronic media are internationally ...
'An Amazing Anthology of Modern Art': Place, Archetype and Identity in the Art of Colin Middleton
Jan 01, 2008; ... For over seventy years, from the outset of his career to the present day, the Northern Irish painter Colin Middleton (1910-83), has been both celebrated and condemned for his eclecticism. Varying from post-impressionist influences to surrealism and expressionism, Middleton's stylistic range has ...
The Man in the White Suit: New Textiles and the Social Fabric
Jan 01, 2008; ... In his recollections of "The Fifties', The Angry Decade, the critic Kenneth Allsop presented a list of word-associations prompted by that phrase: Television and the TV 'celebrity', expresso bars, skiffle, the boom of the pop-singer, indoor plants, Samuel Beckett, The Threepenny Opera, ...
Onward Christian Spacemen: Dan Dare - Pilot of the Future as British Cultural History
Jan 01, 2008; ... The comic strip has rarely been afforded even the grudging scholarly interest shown towards other aspects of mass-produced visual culture such as popular film and television. In Britain, especially, research into the history of comics has tended to be the preserve of collectors and enthusiasts ...
The Discursivity of Print: Damien Hirst's Series The Last Supper (1999)
Jan 01, 2008; ... The focus of this essay is the suite of thirteen prints The Last Supper (1999) by the best-known British artist of the 19903, Damien Hirst, which was instigated and published by British print publisher Charles Booth Clibborn and his Paragon Press.1 This context for Hirst's engagement with print ...
Reassessing Nikolaus Pevsner
Jan 01, 2008; ... Reassessing Nikolaus Pevsner edited by Peter Draper, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004, pp.244. The remarkable career of Sir Nikolaus Pevsner has withstood steady and frequent challenges from successive generations of architectural historians during nearly a quarter of a century since his death ....
'When Will We Have Sleeping Logicians, Sleeping Philosophers?: Julian Trevelyan in Pursuit of a Super-Reality1
Jan 01, 2008; ... The anthropological Surrealist collages, photographs and texts produced by Julian Trevelyan (1910-88) between 1937 and 1939 fall largely into two broad groups in terms of subject matter. The first collection presents his interpretation of the Surrealist aesthetic category of decline, during a ...
Alfred Gilbert's Aestheticism: Gilbert amongst Whistler, Wilde, Leighton, Pater and Burne-Jones
Jan 01, 2008; ... Alfred Gilbert's Aestheticism: Gilbert amongst Whistler, Wilde, Leighton, Pater and Burne-Jones, by Jason Edwards, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006, pp.292 Jason Edwards' monograph on Alfred Gilbert is the latest in a small but growing wave of studies focusing on the still much neglected field ...
Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture
Jan 01, 2008; ... Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture by Jonathan Smith, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp-378 Jonathan Smith's book is a significant addition to the burgeoning historical investigation of scientific imagery and its relation to and influence on wider visual culture ....
Modern Sculpture Reader
Jan 01, 2008; ... Modern Sculpture Reader edited by Jon Wood, David Hulks and Alex Potts, Leeds: Henry Moore Institute, 2007, pp.542 The history of sculpture has a rapidly expanding literature. Recently, numerous publications have explored the complex landscape of sculptural practice, particularly from ...
Introduction. 'Anxious Flirtations': Homoeroticism, Art and Aestheticism in Late-Victorian Britain
Jan 01, 2007; ... The five essays comprising this issue of Visual Culture in Britain derive from a conference that took place at the Institute of English Studies in July 2001, entitled 'Anxious Flirtations: Homoeroticism, Art and Aestheticism in LateVictorian Britain'. Following the centenary of Oscar Wilde's ...
'A Singularity of Appearance Counts Doubly in a Democracy of Clothes': Whistler, Fancy Dress and the Camping of Artists' Dress in the Late Nineteenth Century
Jan 01, 2007; ... 'A singularity of appearance counts doubly in a democracy of clothes.' For Frank Harris, this was one of the important lessons Whistler taught the young Oscar Wilde when the former had returned to London after the Ruskin libel trial.1 Whistler's influence upon Wilde is well recorded, as is the ...