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The unsung glories of Croatian art and culture

“The first scholarly study in the English language of Croatia’s extraordinary artistic heritage…”, this handsomely produced book is a collection of 12 essays by British and Croatian experts highlighting the cultural riches of this small and much misunderstood country. Long subsumed within the... >>>

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From issue 207, November 2009.
Published online 18 Nov 09 (Books)

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

Coverage of the poet’s bicentenary has been inadequate, but this exhibition catalogue goes some way to compensate for the neglect >>>

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Published online 5 Oct 09 (Books)

Diary of an art dealer

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

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Published online 28 Sep 09 (Books)

Designing the “poetic home”

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

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Published online 12 Aug 09 (Books)

Body art: where beauty is literally skin-deep

A book on paintings and drawings by tattooists focuses on the skill of the work instead of the application >>>

From issue 207, November 2009.
Published online 18 Nov 09 (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 >>>

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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)

Featured articles
A letter from August 1882 from Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo, featuring a pen and ink sketch of a pollarded willow

Van Gogh’s letters: the definitive edition

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

 

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