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Exhibitionist : writing about art in a daily newspaper / Richard Dorment.
Fine Arts Library N7445.2 .D67 2016
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LIBRA N7445.2 .D67 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dorment, Richard, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Essays. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art criticism.
- Writing and art.
- Local Subjects:
- Art criticism.
- Writing and art.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- 528 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Wilmington Square Books, an imprint of Bitter Lemon Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- For thirty years, until 2015, Richard Dorment was the art critic of the Daily Telegraph. Writing almost every week it was his job to introduce, to explain and to criticise for a popular newspaper the most significant current art exhibitions, mainly in London, but ranging throughout the UK, and frequently in Paris, Amsterdam and in New York and Washington. The result is an extraordinary collection of around a thousand essays, of which he has selected 106, and which distil and commemorate in terms appropriate to a serious but unscholarly audience, some of the finest and most memorable cultural events of the last three decades. Ranging from early prehistoric art of the Ice Age to the performance art of today, and taking in nearly all the significant art in between, the book is an astonishingly readable and accessible introduction to the work of the world's finest artists.
- Contents:
- 1 Ancient and Non-European Art 29
- Ice Age Art 30
- The Painted Tomb-Chapel of Nebamun 34
- Egypt's Dazzling Sun 38
- Kingdom of Ife: Sculptures from West Africa 42
- Aztecs 46
- The Padshahnama 50
- 2 European Art before 1800 55
- Pieter Brnegel the Elder 56
- Caravaggio: the Final Years 59
- Johannes Vermeer 63
- Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin 67
- Goya's Portrait of the Condesa de Chinckón 71
- Citizens and Kings: Portraits in the Age of Revolution 74
- 3 British Art before 1800 81
- Alexander Pope, François Roubiliac and the Portrait Bust 82
- William Hogarth 86
- Thomas Gainsborough: The Harvest Wagon 90
- Vases and Volcanoes 94
- Thomas Jones 98
- Art On the Line 102
- Swagger Portraits 106
- 4 Nineteenth-Century Europe and America 111
- Fierce Friends: Artists and Animals 112
- Light! 117
- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot 121
- Christen Købke 124
- American Sublime 128
- Manet and the Sea 132
- Manet's Luncheon in the Studio 136
- Winslow Homer 141
- Cézanne: The Card Players 144
- Renoir at the Theatre 149
- Henri Rousseau 152
- Thomas Eakins 156
- Gusta ve Caillebotte 160
- Vincent Van Gogh 164
- John Singer Sargent 169
- Georges Seurat 174
- Impressionism: Painting Quickly in France 178
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 183
- Vilheini Hammershøi 187
- Symbolist Landscape 191
- 1900: Art at the Crossroads 196
- 5 Nineteenth-Century Britain 201
- Thomas Lawrence 202
- Turner and the Sea 207
- Turner's Fighting Temeraire 211
- Late Turner 214
- John Constable 218
- Edwin Landseer 222
- William Bell Scott 226
- Edward Burne-Jones 229
- Frank Holl 233
- Fairy Paintings 237
- Walter Sickert 241
- Aubrey Beardsley 245
- The Aesthetic Movement 249
- The Age of Enchantment 253
- 6 Photography 261
- La Divine Comtesse 262
- Eadweard Muybridge 267
- Julia Margaret Cameron 271
- 7 Twentieth-Century Europe 275
- Matisse 276
- Matisse Picasso 280
- Matisse: the Cut-Outs 285
- Mondrian: Nature to Abstraction 291
- The Stein Family 295
- Picasso: The Early Years 300
- Georges Braque 304
- Joan Miró 308
- Rene Magritte 312
- 8 Twentieth-Century America 317
- American Art in the Twentieth Century 318
- Alexander Calder 323
- George Bellows 327
- Arshile Gorky 331
- Jackson Pollock 336
- 9 Post-War America 343
- Roy Lichtenstein 344
- Cy Twombly 348
- The Warhol Look: Glamour, Style, Fashion 352
- Andy Warhol: Outer and Inner Space 356
- Jasper Johns 360
- Brice Marden 364
- Richard Serra 368
- Susan Hiller 371
- Bruce Naumann 376
- Fluxus 380
- 10 Twentieth-Century Britain 385
- Algernon Newton 386
- The Sitwells 390
- Stanley Spencer 394
- Herbert Read 399
- Douglas Cooper 402
- Robin Ironside and Keith Vaughan 406
- Picasso and Modern British Art 410
- Neo-Romantics 415
- 11 Post-War and Contemporary International 419
- Modern Art 420
- On Kawara 426
- Eva Hesse 430
- Bas Jan Ader 435
- Jeff Wall 439
- Gary Hill 442
- Francesco Clemente 444
- Felix Gonzales-Torres 448
- Matthew Barney (II Tempo del Postino) 452
- Olafur Eliasson 456
- Francis Alÿs 459
- 12 Post-War and Contemporary Britain 463
- David Hockney 464
- Gilbert and George 468
- Andy Goldsworthy 472
- Mark Wallinger 475
- Tracey Emin 479
- Marcus Coates 483
- 13 Art Politics 487
- Tate Modern 488
- William Hogarth's Sigismunda 493
- The Lure of the East 497
- Thomas Gainsborough 501
- British Iconoclasm 506
- Renaissance 510
- The Elgin Marbles 515
- Closer Examination: Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries 520
- I Look Back with Amazement 524.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781908524676
- 1908524677
- OCLC:
- 943678463
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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