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Orientalist art and photography
Robert Irwin
Fake views of the East: as produced by "heroic" photographers, erotic fantasists, camera-shy subjects and art-buyers who preferred horses to camels |
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Rubble makers
Gavin Stamp
Scotland has produced a disproportionate number of great architects; but many of their works have been deemed dispensable by the authorities. A new book inspires nostalgia for Scotland's lost buildings and extinguished architecture. |
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Powell Frith's wide angles
Lindsay Duguid
By his own estimation not "great" but nonetheless "very successful", the Victorian artist William Powell Frith has also demonstrated staying power. |
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The three David Hockneys
Judith Flanders
Behind Hockney the celebrity and Hockney the poster boy is Hockney the artist, and he is much more important than his two doppelgängers would have us believe. |
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Velázquez brought to light
Julian Bell
An overwhelming exhibition looks at the "various compelling truths, each separate" by the finest-equipped and sharpest intelligence ever to specialize in oils. |
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Dogma days
Timothy Hyman
ART SINCE 1900. Modernism, antimodernism, postmodernism. By Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois and Benjamin H. D. Buchloh. |
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Antiquity on a plate
James Hall
THE MIRROR OF THE GODS. Classical mythology in Renaissance art. By Malcolm Bull. |
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Animal in a suit
Norbert Lynton
Pink nudes, white tiles and the austere magic of Matisse |
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