Exhibitionist: Writing about Art in a Daily Newspaper
An extraordinary collection of over 100 essays which distill and commemorate some of the finest and most memorable art exhibitions of the last three decades. Ranging from early prehistoric art of the Ice Age to the performance art of today, and taking in nearly all the significant art in between, the book is an astonishingly readable and accessible introduction to the work of the world's finest artists.

Richard Dorment was the art critic of London's Daily Telegraph. He wrote almost every week about the most significant art exhibitions throughout the UK, but also in Paris, Amsterdam, New York, and Washington.

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Exhibitionist: Writing about Art in a Daily Newspaper
An extraordinary collection of over 100 essays which distill and commemorate some of the finest and most memorable art exhibitions of the last three decades. Ranging from early prehistoric art of the Ice Age to the performance art of today, and taking in nearly all the significant art in between, the book is an astonishingly readable and accessible introduction to the work of the world's finest artists.

Richard Dorment was the art critic of London's Daily Telegraph. He wrote almost every week about the most significant art exhibitions throughout the UK, but also in Paris, Amsterdam, New York, and Washington.

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Exhibitionist: Writing about Art in a Daily Newspaper

Exhibitionist: Writing about Art in a Daily Newspaper

by Richard Dorment
Exhibitionist: Writing about Art in a Daily Newspaper

Exhibitionist: Writing about Art in a Daily Newspaper

by Richard Dorment

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An extraordinary collection of over 100 essays which distill and commemorate some of the finest and most memorable art exhibitions of the last three decades. Ranging from early prehistoric art of the Ice Age to the performance art of today, and taking in nearly all the significant art in between, the book is an astonishingly readable and accessible introduction to the work of the world's finest artists.

Richard Dorment was the art critic of London's Daily Telegraph. He wrote almost every week about the most significant art exhibitions throughout the UK, but also in Paris, Amsterdam, New York, and Washington.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781908524676
Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press, Ltd
Publication date: 09/13/2016
Pages: 528
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 9.90(h) x 1.60(d)

About the Author

Richard Dorment was born in the US and studied at Princeton and Columbia before joining the staff at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In 1986 he became the chief art critic of The Daily Telegraph in London, and in 1992 he won the Hawthornden Prize for Art Criticism. In 2000 he was named ‘Critic of the Year’ in the British Press awards, and in 2014 he won the Holland Prize for his review of the re-opened Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. He was awarded the CBE in 2014 for his services to the arts. He retired in 2015.
He has written several exhibition and museum collection catalogs, and academic books, but this is the first collection of his reviews to be published.

Table of Contents

Preface 11

Introduction 14

1 Ancient and Non-European Art 29

Ice Age Art 30

The Painted Tomb-Chapel of Nebamun 34

Egypt's Dazzling Sun 38

Kingdom of Ife: Sculptures from West Africa 42

Aztecs 46

The Padshahnama 50

2 European Art before 1800 55

Pieter Brnegel the Elder 56

Caravaggio: the Final Years 59

Johannes Vermeer 63

Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin 67

Goya's Portrait of the Condesa de Chinckón 71

Citizens and Kings: Portraits in the Age of Revolution 74

3 British Art before 1800 81

Alexander Pope, François Roubiliac and the Portrait Bust 82

William Hogarth 86

Thomas Gainsborough: The Harvest Wagon 90

Vases and Volcanoes 94

Thomas Jones 98

Art On the Line 102

Swagger Portraits 106

4 Nineteenth-Century Europe and America 111

Fierce Friends: Artists and Animals 112

Light! 117

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot 121

Christen Købke 124

American Sublime 128

Manet and the Sea 132

Manet's Luncheon in the Studio 136

Winslow Homer 141

Cézanne: The Card Players 144

Renoir at the Theatre 149

Henri Rousseau 152

Thomas Eakins 156

Gusta ve Caillebotte 160

Vincent Van Gogh 164

John Singer Sargent 169

Georges Seurat 174

Impressionism: Painting Quickly in France 178

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 183

Vilheini Hammershøi 187

Symbolist Landscape 191

1900: Art at the Crossroads 196

5 Nineteenth-Century Britain 201

Thomas Lawrence 202

Turner and the Sea 207

Turner's Fighting Temeraire 211

Late Turner 214

John Constable 218

Edwin Landseer 222

William Bell Scott 226

Edward Burne-Jones 229

Frank Holl 233

Fairy Paintings 237

Walter Sickert 241

Aubrey Beardsley 245

The Aesthetic Movement 249

The Age of Enchantment 253

6 Photography 261

La Divine Comtesse 262

Eadweard Muybridge 267

Julia Margaret Cameron 271

7 Twentieth-Century Europe 275

Matisse 276

Matisse Picasso 280

Matisse: the Cut-Outs 285

Mondrian: Nature to Abstraction 291

The Stein Family 295

Picasso: The Early Years 300

Georges Braque 304

Joan Miró 308

Rene Magritte 312

8 Twentieth-Century America 317

American Art in the Twentieth Century 318

Alexander Calder 323

George Bellows 327

Arshile Gorky 331

Jackson Pollock 336

9 Post-War America 343

Roy Lichtenstein 344

Cy Twombly 348

The Warhol Look: Glamour, Style, Fashion 352

Andy Warhol: Outer and Inner Space 356

Jasper Johns 360

Brice Marden 364

Richard Serra 368

Susan Hiller 371

Bruce Naumann 376

Fluxus 380

10 Twentieth-Century Britain 385

Algernon Newton 386

The Sitwells 390

Stanley Spencer 394

Herbert Read 399

Douglas Cooper 402

Robin Ironside and Keith Vaughan 406

Picasso and Modern British Art 410

Neo-Romantics 415

11 Post-War and Contemporary International 419

Modern Art 420

On Kawara 426

Eva Hesse 430

Bas Jan Ader 435

Jeff Wall 439

Gary Hill 442

Francesco Clemente 444

Felix Gonzales-Torres 448

Matthew Barney (II Tempo del Postino) 452

Olafur Eliasson 456

Francis Alÿs 459

12 Post-War and Contemporary Britain 463

David Hockney 464

Gilbert and George 468

Andy Goldsworthy 472

Mark Wallinger 475

Tracey Emin 479

Marcus Coates 483

13 Art Politics 487

Tate Modern 488

William Hogarth's Sigismunda 493

The Lure of the East 497

Thomas Gainsborough 501

British Iconoclasm 506

Renaissance 510

The Elgin Marbles 515

Closer Examination: Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries 520

I Look Back with Amazement 524

Picture credits 328

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