|
|
Article: Byron, Sully, and the Power of Portraiture.(Book review)
- Article from:
- Wordsworth Circle
- Article date:
- September 22, 2005
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2005 Wordsworth Circle. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
John Clubbe Byron, Sully, and the Power of Portraiture
(Ashgate, 2005) xxi + 343 $95.00.
John Clubbe's Byron, Sully, and the Power of Portraiture is a labor of love--and the love that catalyzed this intricate but beautifully organized book-length essay was of the at-first-sight variety. "I was struck as if by a flaming arrow," writes Clubbe of the moment on April 4, 1999, when, visiting the Owen Gallery in New York, he first encountered and immediately recognized "a large, utterly gorgeous portrait of Lord Byron"--a likeness painted by Thomas Sully, the most eminent American portrait artist of his generation, but completely unknown in the world of Byron ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:
|
|
Article: Byron Kim at Max Protetch. (New York, ...
Art in America;
January 1, 1993 ;
700+ words
... ... to question the term's meaning and usage. Not Byron Kim, however, a young New York artist whose first one-person exhibition posited ... evokes his mother's flesh. Another, Lisa Sigal/Byron Kim, is a diptych indexing the artist and a friend ...
|
|