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From: Sixteenth Century Journal[(essay date spring, 1996) In the following essay, Clifton examines the theme of competition in Vasari's Lives as it supports his notion of artistic progress. As Clifton observes, however, the perfection of Michelangelo...
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From:Art and Christianity (Issue 67) Peer-ReviewedHarewood House 22 April-31 July 2011 Harewood House (1759-71, by John Carr and Robert Adam) is a wellknown, splendidly appointed stately home, its large square entrance hall somewhat incongruously dominated by...
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From:South Atlantic Review (Vol. 83, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedDespite his admiration for Donatello as one of the finest sculptors of his age, the Florentine artist best known as Filarete cautioned readers of his Trattato dellarchitettura: "If you have to do apostles, do not make...
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From:Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire (Vol. 12, Issue 1)Osaretin Ighile's recent sculpture employs strategies that grasp notions of artworks not merely, as single images that express big ideas about humanity, but also as conceptual totalities with multivalent narratives...
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From:Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire (Vol. 3, Issue 3)As a sculptor, I have the responsibility of social expression by citing problems and creating and developing solutions in form and content. This sculpture from my Lynch Fragment Series is a confirmation of the creative...
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From:African Arts (Vol. 44, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedJohn Baloyi (1964-2006) Godzilla (2004) Wood; 310cm x 237cm x 241cm PHOTO BY BEN LAW-VILJOEN; COURTESY DAVID KRUT PUBLISHING ANO THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT TRUST The Constitutional Court in Johannesburg is...
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From:Artforum International (Vol. 50, Issue 10)THE ORGANIC AND THE GEOMETRIC, the corporeal and the mechanical, the biomorphic and the technical: At first glance, Nairy Baghramian's sculpture appears firmly grounded in these antinomies, inevitably recalling the...
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From:Art and Christianity (Issue 75) Peer-ReviewedClassicist in literature and modernist for sculpture, Edward Robinson, who died at home in Exeter 30 May aged 92, was creatively gifted both with pen and chisel. His hinged 'openings' give on to meditations on...
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From:Art and Christianity (Issue 78) Peer-ReviewedThe way in which mood and subject matter interact can be noted in the three works Assembly (1991), Harbour (1994/96), and Largo (2002). Despite their widely differing appearances these sculptures are all part of a...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 5845)The final exhibition at Kettle's Yard before the Cambridge gallery closes for redevelopment is New Rhythms: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska: Art, dance and movement. The show marks the centenary of Gaudier's death in the trenches...
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From:Southwest Review (Vol. 96, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedMy marriage to an Italian journalist and author meant a peripatetic family life between his Italy and my American homeland. Our three daughters reflect this journeying: the eldest was born in my upstate New York...
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From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 34, Issue 2)THE SOURCE: "Sculptors of the American Renaissance: Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Daniel Chester French" by James F. Cooper, in American Arts Quarterly, Fall 2009. THE CIVIL WAR LEFT BOTH THE North and the South bruised...
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From:Mosaic: An interdisciplinary critical journal (Vol. 50, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis essay was written as a catalogue essay to accompany Antony Gormley's exhibition Expansion Field at the Zentrum Paul Klee in Switzerland in 2014 (published by Zentrum Paul Klee and Hatje Cantz). The question of how...
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From:Art and Christianity (Issue 71) Peer-ReviewedOn 20 July 2012 His Excellency the Most Reverend Archbishop Antonio Mennini, Apostolic Nuncio to Great Britain blessed a new Calvary Chapel in Brompton Oratory. Fitting under the organ loft, the Calvary figures,...
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From:Marg, A Magazine of the Arts (Vol. 68, Issue 2)BENITHA PERCIYAL IMAGINES FAITH, BOTH RELIGIOUS AND ARTISTIC, AS AN act of sacrifice and surrender. She possesses an intuitive familiarity with the narrative of Christ's life on earth, from the heralding of his birth to...
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From:Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (Vol. 35, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedWhereas it may be said of other artists that they draw, paint or create sculptures, Gerard Caris should properly be called an investigator. More accurately, he investigates the plastic properties of the regular pentagon...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 5793)In reading, as in life, byways are often more interesting than highways. Let me offer two examples. I am not sure what main road I was on--what exactly I was meant to be researching at this point, a few years ago--but...
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From:Art and Christianity (Issue 76) Peer-ReviewedThe abstract sculptor Dan Flavin (1933-1996), one of the original Minimalists, is well known for his reliefs and installations consisting of fluorescent lamps emitting white or 'high colour' light. Some may have heard...
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From:Artforum International (Vol. 51, Issue 1)A BRIEF METEOR, Jack Burnham blazed forth in September 1968 declaring "Systems Esthetics" to be the preeminent mode of contemporary artmaking. How could this sculpture teacher from the Midwest have gotten it so right?...
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From:Mosaic: A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature (Vol. 41, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedRonald Gonzalez's sculptures embody the four chief concerns of Susan Stewart in On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection. Freudian-Lacanian and Marxian insights converge:...