Reviews

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  Henry Miller, 'Portraiture, caricature and visual culture in Britain, c.1830–80' reviewed by Pat Hardy, Curator of Paintings, Prints and Drawings, Museum of London

  The analysis of nineteenth-century political caricature has often been overlooked in favour of the colourful anarchism of James Gillray, Isaac Cruikshank or Thomas Rowlandson of the previous century, as illustrated in the British Museum’s exhibition ‘Bonaparte and the British; prints and propaganda in the age of Napoleon’. But the relative lack of salacious detail in nineteenth-century caricature and its apparent accommodation with the status quo should not prevent an assessment of the influence, importance and impact of such imagery in[...]

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  Donna Gustafson & Susan Sidlauskas, 'Striking Resemblance: The Changing Art of Portraiture' reviewed by Ulrike Smalley Creative Producer, Ffotogallery

  This work is part of a collaboration between the Zimmerli Art Museum and the Department of Art History at Rutgers University, which encompassed two multifaceted academic projects and resulted in an exhibition and this accompanying publication drawing from the Zimmerli Museum’s collection, enhanced by a significant number of loans. The authors of Striking Resemblance set out to ‘explore the changing face of portraiture in two and three dimensions, and as still and moving images from 1800 to the present.’ The[...]

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  'Fred A. Farrell – Glasgow’s War Artist’ exhibition and catalogue review by Stacey Clapperton, History of Art PhD candidate, University of Glasgow

  The WWI Centenary is now underway and over the next four years Britain’s museums and art galleries will be striving to make their contributions known. ‘Fred A. Farrell – Glasgow’s War Artist’ marks Glasgow’s first contribution to the centenary. The aim of the exhibition and its accompanying catalogue is to rediscover and reconsider one of the country’s forgotten artists and the inspiring and challenging artworks he produced during 1917/18 when he was commissioned by the Corporation of Glasgow to record[...]

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    Michael Hall, ‘Treasures of The Portland Collection’ reviewed by Paul Holden FSA, House and Collections Manager at ‎Lanhydrock, The National Trust

    J.D. Salinger wrote in chapter 3 of Catcher in the Rye ‘What really knocks me out is a[...]

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    Henry Miller, ‘Portraiture, caricature and visual culture in Britain, c.1830–80′ reviewed by Pat Hardy, Curator of Paintings, Prints and Drawings, Museum of London

    The analysis of nineteenth-century political caricature has often been overlooked in favour of the colourful anarchism of James[...]

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    ‘Fred A. Farrell – Glasgow’s War Artist’ exhibition and catalogue review by Stacey Clapperton, History of Art PhD candidate, University of Glasgow

    The WWI Centenary is now underway and over the next four years Britain’s museums and art galleries will[...]

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    Donna Gustafson & Susan Sidlauskas, ‘Striking Resemblance: The Changing Art of Portraiture’ reviewed by Ulrike Smalley Creative Producer, Ffotogallery

    This work is part of a collaboration between the Zimmerli Art Museum and the Department of Art History[...]

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    Amina Wright, ‘Joseph Wright of Derby. Bath and Beyond’ reviewed by Alice Insley, University of Nottingham

    This catalogue, produced to accompany the exhibition of the same title recently at the Holborne and soon to[...]

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    Elizabeth Eger (ed.), ‘Bluestockings Displayed: Portraiture, Performance and Patronage, 1730-1830′ by Dr Ruth Larsen, University of Derby

    The excellent Brilliant Women exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in 2008 and the associated conference, where the[...]

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    Gill Perry et al (eds), ‘Placing Faces: the portrait and the English country house in the long eighteenth century’ by Stephen Ponder, Curator, National Trust South West Region

    As a National Trust curator for country houses with 18th century portraits in their collections, I hoped this[...]

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    Allan Ramsay: Portraits of the Enlightenment exhibition, reviewed by Nel Whiting

    Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, until 5 January 2014   Organised to mark the tercentenary of Allan[...]

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    Marcia Pointon, ‘Portrayal and the search for identity’, reviewed by Lara Perry, University of Brighton

    Portrayal and the search for identity is an enjoyable and meaty read, bound in a handsome but manageably-sized[...]

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    ‘Fred A. Farrell – Glasgow’s War Artist’ exhibition and catalogue review by Stacey Clapperton, History of Art PhD candidate, University of Glasgow

    The WWI Centenary is now underway and over the next four years Britain’s museums and art galleries will[...]

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    Allan Ramsay: Portraits of the Enlightenment exhibition, reviewed by Nel Whiting

    Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, until 5 January 2014   Organised to mark the tercentenary of Allan[...]

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