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Ten Miles on Exmoor: Art & Environment
Suggesting that Richard Long’s A Ten Mile Walk England is as much concerned with boundaries as it is with open …
To Dispel a Great Malady: Robinson in Ruins , the Future of Landscape and the Moving Image: Art & Environment
Patrick Keiller’s film Robinson in Ruins was made as part of an AHRC project, ‘The Future of Landscape and the …
Ruins of the Future: Art & Environment
Charting the genealogy of Patrick Keiller’s Robinson in Ruins, Brian Dillon considers the film’s subjects and themes in terms …
The Military-Pastoral Complex: Contemporary Representations of Militarism in the Landscape: Art & Environment
Examining works of contemporary art that have engaged with militarised landscapes, Matthew Flintham reflects on the ruination of outmoded military …
Layered Land: Andy Goldsworthy at Yorkshire Sculpture Park: Art & Environment
Focusing on the long relationship Andy Goldsworthy has had with the landscape of the Bretton Estate, the location of Yorkshire …
Re-enacting Art and Travel: Art & Environment
In light of theories of re-enactment, Geoff Quilley argues that the landscape imagery produced by amateur British naval artists on …
Waste to Monument: John Latham’s Niddrie Woman: Art & Environment
John Latham’s Artist Placement Group residency at the Scottish Office’s Development Agency in 1975–6 led to a series of proposals …
Atomic Tourism and False Memories: Cai Guo-Qiang’s The Century with Mushroom Clouds: Art & Environment
Examining Cai Guo-Qiang’s photographic series The Century with Mushroom Clouds, Ben Tufnell explores the work’s connections to American land …
The Roman Campagna Revisited: Art & Environment
Richard Wrigley reconnects the Roman campagna – a landscape endowed with considerable artistic significance – with its troubled history as …
Francis Bacon: Back to Degas: Rothenstein Lecture 2011
Providing the first focused account of Francis Bacon’s artistic dialogue with Edgar Degas, Martin Hammer argues that the French painter …
Van Dyck and Tapestry in England
Van Dyck first came to England in 1620, when the Surrey-based Mortlake Manufactory began making tapestries. Simon Turner considers whether …
Index, Diagram, Graphic Trace: Involuntary Drawing
The graphic trace is a hybrid type of representation: it takes from the index a registration of something unique – …
Lightning and Rain: Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis and Matisse’s Hand: Involuntary Drawing
A celebrated sequence of slow-motion footage of Matisse’s working hand fascinated philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty and psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. This paper …
Becoming Machine: Surrealist Automatism and Some Contemporary Instances: Involuntary Drawing
Examining the idea of being ‘machine-like’ and its impact on the practice of automatic writing, this article charts a history …
Wavelength: On Drawing and Sound in the Work of Trisha Donnelly: Involuntary Drawing
This article considers the relationship between drawing and sound in the work of American artist Trisha Donnelly (born 1974). Against …
Drawing in the Dark: Involuntary Drawing
Susan Morris approaches the subject of involuntary drawing from the point of view of an artist trying to make a …
Van Dyck and France under the Ancien Régime 1641–1793
Examining Anthony Van Dyck’s reputation in France from his death in 1641 to the opening of the Musée du Louvre …
Production in View: Allan Sekula’s Fish Story and the Thawing of Postmodernism
Bill Roberts argues that Fish Story 1989–95 by the photographer and theorist Allan Sekula expresses a shift from a culture …
Sugar, Salt and Curdled Milk: Millais and the Synthetic Subject
This article examines the sexual imagery of particular paintings by the Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais. It argues that criticism …
Face-Off in Weimar Culture: The Physiognomic Paradigm, Competing Portrait Anthologies, and August Sander’s Face of Our Time
August Sander’s photobook Face of Our Time is discussed in relation to interest in physiognomy in Weimar Germany. Much of …