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British Art Studies, 2016 This is a study of the conventional settings that were employed by painters of conversation piece portraits in eighteenth-century England. The focus is upon the placement of groups “in conversation” around the hearth, in front of a chimney piece.
Matthew Craske
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John McHale, Marshall McLuhan, and the Collage “Ikon”
British Art Studies, 2021 Over the course of the 1950s, the Scottish writer and artist John McHale was committed to exploring the effects of fine art, advertising, and new media on the human experience.
Rachel Stratton
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Varieties of Photographic Experience: Frederick H. Evans and the Lantern Slide
British Art Studies, 2015 Frederick H. Evans (1853–1943) spent the turn of the twentieth century photographing English and French cathedrals, always using the church to figure a particularly late Victorian alarm at the lost vitality these medieval structures symbolized.
Kara Fiedorek
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On Place and Displacement: Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the Immigrant Landscape
British Art Studies, 2018 This essay approaches British landscape studies through the concept of the immigrant landscape. Studying watercolors from the Virginian residence of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, this feature analyzes the concept of “displacement” as a contribution to ...
Julia A. Sienkewicz
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Written Out of Life: The Death of Keith Vaughan and his Journal
European Journal of Life Writing, 2020 When the British painter Keith Vaughan (1912–77) ingested a lethal cocktail of barbiturates, having made the decision to end his life after a long struggle with cancer, there was only one thing left to do: write one final entry in his journal, the ...
Alex Belsey
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British Art Studies, 2016 The “Look First” feature is pre-eminently visual, encouraging viewers to engage with art objects in new ways through BAS’s digital platform. "Looking for the Longitude" will be published as a sequence over 12 days to coincide with the anniversary of ...
Katy Barrett +9 more
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Trash talk and buried treasure: Northcote and Hazlitt [PDF]
Journal of Art Historiography, 2020 James Northcote was as reputed for his liberality of anecdote as for his parsimony in hospitality. His conversations and recollections, bristling with detail, of his time in Reynolds’ orbit and after, have entertained and misled in equal measure, but in ...
Mark Ledbury
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Outside In: Reflections of British Landscape in the Long Anthropocene
British Art Studies, 2018 The genre of landscape, earth, and land art from the 1960s and 1970s, and more recent ecological art, are typically separated in the field of art history.
Mark A. Cheetham
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British Art Studies, 2018 Drawing on examples of installation, film, photography, and performance, this essay explores the significance of the island theme in contemporary British art.
Gill Perry
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Nicholas Hilliard and the Painters of 1560s London
British Art Studies, 2020 Nothing is known for certain about Nicholas Hilliard’s training as an artist. This essay addresses this problem by providing an account of the lives of the artists active in London during the decade in which he completed his apprenticeship. It focuses on
Edward Town
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