Tag British art

A Personal Canon: Tim Barringer on Five Influential Texts

“British Art” lay at the margins of art history until the 1980s – the very phrase an oxymoron, a Yale colleague told me, since there is no British art to speak of. A certain introspection haunted even brilliant interpretative essays such as The Englishness of English Art (1956), given as

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A Conversation with George Shaw

As a new exhibition at the National Gallery London looks to our neglected woodland for inspiration, our London office recently asked its creator – National Gallery associate artist George Shaw – some questions about painting, poetry, music, and why he went into the woods… A Conversation with National Gallery Associate Artist George Shaw

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Young Mr. Turner: A Conversation with Eric Shanes

A complex figure, and divisive during his lifetime, Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) has long been considered Britain’s greatest painter.  The new biography of the artist, Young Mr. Turner: The First Forty Years, 1775-1815, gives a comprehensive and engaging account of Turner’s early life, drawing together recent scholarship, correcting errors

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Edwardian Opulence: British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century

Follow @yaleARTbooks Edwardian Opulence: British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century opens with Giovanni’s Boldini’s Portrait of a Lady, which features a popular society woman seated on an elaborately embroidered coral silk settee fanning herself with a great black ostrich feather fan.  As she leans toward the viewer

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Tuesday Studio: Art For All

This summer, the Yale Center for British Art is presenting the exhibition Art for All: British Posters for Transport.  The show is based around Henry S. Hacker’s collection of promotional posters designed in the primarily 1930s for the London Underground and British Railway system.  The works are exceptional examples both

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Congratulations to three award-winning YUP titles

The announcement came out this week that three Yale Press titles won awards. Two of them, The Arts in Latin America and Surrealism and the Spanish Civil War, will share the Eleanor Tufts Book Award of the American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies The Arts in Latin America by

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London As You’ve Never Seen It Before

“The scale and drama of the largest of these works takes your breath away. This is art as theatrical spectacle.” The works so acclaimed are a series of monumental black-and-white paintings of the London cityscape by John Virtue (b. 1947), former Associate Artist of the National Gallery, London (2003-2005). These

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