A very British medium Summerfield, Angela
The Spectator (London. 1828),
12/2005, Volume:
299, Issue:
9252
Magazine Article
we can marvel at the technical virtuosity of Thomas Girtin's 'Peterborough Cathedral' c.1795 and John Constable's 'East Bergholt Church' c.1817; admire Thomas Gainsborough's and Turner's ...inventiveness; and be enthralled, as indeed we are meant to be, back in Yorkshire, by John Sell Cotman's 'Doorway to the Refectory, Kirkham Priory, Yorkshire', 1804.
Parks and recreation
Library Journal,
06/2015, Volume:
140, Issue:
10
Book Review
The following books are reviewed: 1. Pastures Green & Dark Satanic Mills: The British Passion for Landscape, by Tim Barringer & Oliver Fairclough. 2. Frederick Law Olmsted: Plans and Views of Public ...Parks.
Take Herbert Schmatz -- one is tempted to add an "1" to his last name -- a German-Scot, according the catalogue. At more than six feet tall and four feet wide, his Faithful unto Death, "Christianes ...ad Leones!" is as dismal as it is immense. A contemporary critic of the painting, which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1888, was already hip to its fundamental artificiality. In her commentary accompanying this item, Alison Smith, the exhibit's principle curator and the catalogue's general editor, reports that this critic "thought the background appeared as if it had been created `by some mechanical process' which destroyed any sense of drama. The victims themselves can be read as studio models arranged in conventional poses." Quite so!
Pequeno museo (Petite Museum) Otero-Boisvert, Maria
The Publishers weekly,
04/2001, Volume:
1, Issue:
1
Magazine Article
K Up-This unique and lovely book, measuring a scant six-and-a-half inches square, packs in a lot of art and vocabulary. The glossy cover and heavy stock of the pages contribute to the overall feeling ...of quality. Details from master artworks are matched with alphabetically arranged words.
Describes the Museum of London exhibition, 'Creative Quarters: the art world in London 1700 to 2000' curated by Lucy Peltz and Cathy Ross. It is a fascinating display that goes beyond the traditional ...art-historical approach to examine the relationship between artists and the capital, revealing the ways artists and Londoners have interacted, and the broader impact of the art world on the geography of the capital. (Quotes from original text)
Lewis Carroll: A Biography Friend, Miles Edward
Journal of Aesthetic Education,
04/1998, Volume:
32, Issue:
1
Book Review, Journal Article
Peer reviewed
...it is a pleasant float trip, much like the rows that Dodson himself would often take with his young friends, the Liddell sisters, most beloved of whom was Alice. ...the reader is left in the ...discomforting position of, on the one hand, not wanting to jump to conclusions about the possible sexual perversions of one so professionally well-loved but, on the other, feeling nudged by the evidence to do just that. Nagged by feelings of insecurity and doubt, he kept meticulous journals of his daily life, with particular attention to his encounters with his young female friends.
History in the News
History today,
11/2007, Volume:
57, Issue:
11
Magazine Article
The sketch, a pencil drawing of 'Hyam Church, Suffolk', was bought in 1896 from the sale of Constable's grandson, Eustace, and is unrecorded in the catalogues of the artist's work It forms part of a ...13-volume collection entitled The Life of J.M.W.Turner, KA, a series of books which feature hundreds of artworks and autographs by prominent 18th and 19th century artists, many previously unknown or considered lost The collection also records correspondence between Turner and his contemporaries and written documents. A splinter from a broken lance passed through his visor during a warm-up run for a jousting re-enactment sequence to have been used in a special edition of Channel 4's Time Team archaeological programme on location in Leicestershire, hosted by Tony Robinson and focusing on Edward Ill's Round Table at Windsor Castle.
