Books

Poetic justice: a new book on Tennyson celebrates him in the way he deserves

Celebrations of the Tennyson bicentenary have been somewhat patchy, but the exhibition at Farringford House (7 August-9 September 2009) could well have been the most sympathetic and evocative.... >>>

Web only. Published online 5 Oct 09 (Books)

Diary of an art dealer

Richard Day remembers 40 years of business in “Artful Tales” >>>

Web only. Published online 28 Sep 09 (Books)

Designing the “poetic home”

A thorough appraisal of 19th-century interior decoration >>>

Web only. Published online 12 Aug 09 (Books)

Visions of Babylon—and beyond

A clutch of books and two international exhibitions explore the famous ancient city, its culture and art >>>

From issue 196, November 2008. Published online 12 Nov 08 (Books)

Van Gogh’s letters: the definitive edition

The publication next week of the complete letters of the artist is a distinguished scholarly achievement >>>

From issue 206, October 2009. Published online 30 Sep 09 (Books)

Sentimental or patriotic, but mostly miserable

A survey of prints of war scenes from the 16th to the early 19th centuries >>>

Web only. Published online 17 Aug 09 (Books)

The mamas take their place with the dadas

The feminist reclamation of the absurdist movement >>>

From issue 204, July/August 2009. Published online 5 Aug 09 (Books)

This art stuff—what does it all mean?

Our contributor Sarah Thornton immerses herself in art’s subcultures, while Hans Ulrich Obrist asks artists to do the maths >>>

From issue 195, October 2008. Published online 15 Oct 08 (Books)

Immortality, Roman style

Hadrian was a politically savvy, calculating, vicious, lion-hunting, married, gay general in the best tradition >>>

From issue 193, July-August 2008. Published online 1 Jul 08 (Books)

Featured articles
Francisco de Goya, The Disasters of War: With or Without Reason, around 1810-15

Sentimental or patriotic, but mostly miserable

Emmy Hennings with doll, 1917. Nachlass Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings/Robert Walser-Stiftung

The mamas take their place with the dadas

Babylon of later imaginings: Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Tower of Babel, 1563

Visions of Babylon—and beyond

Commodities circulating in the symbolic economy: Art Basel 2008

This art stuff—what does it all mean?

Harold Edgerton, King of Diamonds Playing Card Hit by a 30-Calibre Bullet, 1970

The fascinating art of science

Immortality, Roman style

 

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