Exhibitionist: Writing about Art in a Daily Newspaper

by Richard Dorment

Overview

100 sumptuously produced essays by Britain’s leading art critic, US born, Richard Dorment. They cover exhibitions of historic and contemporary art world-wide, interpreting and critiquing many of the most important shows of the last 30 years. They offer, in a highly accessible form, the fundamental elements of a history of art, and a beguiling review of recent cultural trends.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781908524683
Publisher:	Wilmington Square Books
Publication date:	08/22/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	528
File size:	127 MB
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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

PARTIAL TOC:

1.Ancient and Non-European Art
Ice Age Art
The Painted Tomb-Chapel of Nebamun
Egypt’s Dazzling Sun
Kingdom of Ife: Sculptures from West Africa
Aztecs
The Padshahnama

2.European Art before 1800
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Caravaggio: the Final Years
Johannes Vermeer
Jean-Baptiste
Siméon Chardin
Goya’s Portrait of the Condesa de Chinchón
Citizens and Kings: Portraits in the Age of Revolution, 1760–1830

3. British Art before 1800
Alexander Pope
François Roubiliac and the Portrait
William Hogarth
Thomas Gainsborough
Vases and Volcanoes
Thomas Jones
Art On the Line
Swagger Portraits

4.Nineteenth-Century Europe and America
Fierce Friends: Artists and Animals 1750–1900
Light!
Jean-Baptiste Camille
Corot
Christen Købke
American Sublime
Manet and the Sea
Manet’s Luncheon
Winslow Homer
Cézanne: The Card Players
Renoir at the Theatre
Henri Rousseau
Thomas Eakins
Gustave Caillebotte
Vincent Van Gogh
John Singer Sargent
Georges Seurat
Impressionism: Painting Quickly in France 1860–1890
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Vilhelm Hammershøi Symbolist
Landscape 1900: Art at the Crossroads

5.Nineteenth-Century Britain
Thomas Lawrence
Turner and the Sea
Turner’s Fighting Temeraire
Late Turner
John Constable
Edwin Landseer
William Bell
Scott Edward Burne-
Jones Frank Holl
Fairy Paintings
Aubrey Beardsley
The Aesthetic Movement
The Age of Enchantment

6. Photography
La Divine Comtesse
Eadweard Muybridge
Julia Margaret Cameron

7.Twentieth-Century Europe
Matisse
Matisse
Picasso
Matisse: the Cut-Outs
Mondrian: Nature to Abstraction
The Stein Family
Picasso: the Early Years
Georges Braque
Joan Miró
René Magritte

7.Twentieth-Century America
American Art in the 20th Century
Alexander Calder
George Bellows
Arshile Gorky
Jackson Pollock

8. Post-War America
Roy Lichtenstein
Cy Twombly
The Warhol Look: Glamour, Style, Fashion
Andy Warhol: Outer and Inner Space
Jasper Johns
Brice Marden
Richard Serra
Susan Hiller
Bruce Naumann
Fluxus

9. Twentieth-Century Britain
Algernon Newton
The Sitwells
Stanley Spencer
Herbert Read
Douglas Cooper
The Art that Dare Not Speak its Name
Picasso and Modern British Art
Neo-Romantics

10. Post-War and Contemporary International
Modern Art
On Kawara
Eva Hesse Bas
Jan Ader
Jeff Wall
Gary Hill
Francesco Clemente [Sophie Calle]
Felix Gonzales-Torres
Matthew Barney (Il Tempo del Postino)
Olafur Eliasson
Francis Alÿs

11.Post-War and Contemporary Britain
David Hockney
Gilbert and George
Andy Goldsworthy
Mark Wallinger
Tracey Emin
Marcus Coates

12. Art Politics
Tate Modern
William Hogarth’s Sigismunda
The Lure of the East
Thomas Gainsborough
British Iconoclasm
Renaissance
The Elgin Marbles
Closer Examination: Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries