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Q&A with Tracey Emin
Artist Tracey Emin gives advice to young artists and answers your questions on her career and inspirations
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Homage to Bacon
We bring together a mix of writers, museum directors, artists, musicians and filmmakers to pay homage to the legendary artist
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What Is To Be Done, Sandra? Learning in Cultural Institutions of the Twenty-First Century
This article explores the difference between learning and education within the context of contemporary cultural institutions. It discusses current theory …
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The Seventeenth-Century Sublime: Boileau and Poussin
This article summarises the key concerns of Pseudo-Longinus’s On the Sublime, and considers their interest for one of the …
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‘Behold the Buffoon’: Dada, Nietzsche’s Ecce Homo and the Sublime
Parodic humour was integral to Dada, and the influence of Nietzsche on dada is well known. However, the connections between …
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Surviving Reality: Lee Bontecou’s Worldscapes
This article focuses on American artist Lee Bonteco’s drawing practice during the early 1960s, focusing in particular on Drawing 1961. …
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Cinematic Drawing in a Digital Age
Developed in relation to works by Tacita Dean and William Kentridge, this article explores the way in which the arrival …
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Listening for the Sublime: Aural-Visual Improvisations in Nineteenth-Century Musical Art
Music’s capacity to expose the contradictions which emerged within late nineteenth-century understandings of the sublime is explored in relation to …
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An Alternative National Gallery: Blake’s 1809 Exhibition and the Attack on Evangelical Culture
This essay suggests that Blake’s 1809 exhibition was haunted by the memory of the Irish painter James Barry (1741–1806) and …
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Richard Hamilton’s The annunciation
This article traces Richard Hamilton’s use of photography and digital technologies to subtly undermine verisimilitude in his print The annunciation …
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Ideas in Transmission: LeWitt’s Wall Drawings and the Question of Medium
This article considers Sol LeWitt’s wall drawings as artworks poised on the cusp of the ‘post-medium condition’ of installation art. …
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Damien Hirst’s Shark: Nature, Capitalism and the Sublime
Focusing on Damien Hirst’s The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living 1991 which contains a preserved …
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Reasoned Exhibitions: Blake in 1809 and Reynolds in 1813
This paper considers Blake’s 1809 exhibition in the light of the nascent practice of retrospective exhibitions and compares it with …
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Liubov Popova: From Painting to Textile Design
In 1923 the painter Liubov Popova began creating designs for fabric to be manufactured by the First State Textile Printing …
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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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‘Suffer a Sea-Change’: Turner, Painting, Drowning
This paper reflects upon the implications of J.M.W. Turner’s close and varied attention to the depiction of sea-water. In particular, …
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William Blake’s 1809 Exhibition
This paper introduces the 1809 London exhibition that William Blake organised of his own works, exploring its high ambition and …
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Dust and Doubt: The Deserts and Galaxies of Vija Celmins
This article considers one work on paper by Vija Celmins in the ARTIST ROOMS collection: Untitled (Desert–Galaxy) 1974. In a …
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Lost in the Crowd: Blake and London in 1809
This article explores why William Blake’s solo exhibition of 1809 has been such an important source for understanding his attitude …
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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 as …