Publisher: The Studio Trust
Content: 174 pages, full colour
Language: English
ISBN: 0962514144 (Hardcover).
Dimensions: 11.0 x 8.7 x 0.75 inches
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Editor: Michael Spens
Deputy Editor: Dr Janet McKenzie
Creative Director: Martin Kennedy
Vice-President: Miguel Benavides
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Introduction
For this Special Issue, the selection I have chosen from our website www.studiointernational.com demonstrates our intention to commission articles from a growing team of art critics and art historians. In this Yearbook, the subject matter of reviews was focused predominantly on painting as a medium, whether contemporary or historic exhibitions were reviewed. Nonetheless, one-quarter of the articles in this volume cover architecture and industrial design, and there are others on sculpture and photography. Particularly interesting here is Dr Clive Ashwin’s review of the Victoria and Albert Museum’s unforgettable 19th-century designer Christopher Dresser. Ashwin has had a long-standing connection with Studio International, from as far back as the 1970s.
The burgeoning activity in the arts in Asia has led to much increased coverage in our e-journal. I have been very pleased with our coverage of this exciting and ground-breaking movement in contemporary art. China and Japan have led the way, but India is now making inroads. We have a dedicated Asian team, which will be further expanded in the near future.
What is most obvious, during the last few years, has been the continuing legacy of 20th-century American art in painting, and we have printed articles here on the great African American painter Romare Bearden, as well as Childe Hassam, Jasper Johns, Edward Hopper and Philip Guston. We also include the works of Bruce Nauman and Don Judd, and the permanently fascinating and enthralling Constantin Brancusi. Our selection of art historical exhibitions includes the successful presentations of the work of Raphael, of Degas and of Vuillard, all currently subject to reappraisal in terms of their importance and influence. The Raphael exhibition at the National Gallery in London in 2004, however, missed any reference to Raphael’s outstanding contribution to late Renaissance architecture, which was unfortunate. The public remains largely uninformed about this additional talent of a great painter.
Architecture itself has become the stalking ground of a new, acquisitive generation of well-informed and well-budgeted clients and curators, and this dynamic has led to some truly innovative new buildings the world over. We chose for this Yearbook our review of new work by Frank Gehry, and the technologically highly innovative ‘Gherkin’ tower by Norman Foster in the City of London. Looking back at the troubled decade of the 1930s in England, we include coverage of the timely restoration of the Wells Coates’s Lawn Road Flats in Hampstead, London. One is reminded again of the continuing ability of British artists and architects to innovate and to surprise their clientele.
We wish our readers of the Yearbook and the website an inspiring and fulfilling New Year. The future promises a rapid and scintillating sequence of new exhibitions worldwide, and on the website we are now able to provide rapid coverage and reviews of those international exhibitions we consider merit full coverage, as well as re-evaluation and comment
Michael Spens
Editor
Contents
Martin Boyce – interview: ‘You’re both inside and outside. There’s...
Martin Boyce’s show at Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, offers three distinctive, in-between spaces for exp...
Hanna Bekker vom Rath: A Rebel for Modern Art
This richly documented show does justice to the feisty Hanna Bekker vom Rath, a German art collector...
Infinite Variety: Harold Cohen and Cybernetics in the 1960s
On the occasion of a show of Harold Cohen’s work at Gazelli Art House in London, we consider the p...
Through his sensitive and thoughtful works, Issam Kourbaj ensures the plight of those in his native ...
The English eccentric William Blake meets his German peers in a treasure-strewn exhibition that make...
Chronorama: Photographic Treasures of the 20th Century
Highlights from the golden age of photography, produced for fashion magazines Vogue and Vanity Fair,...
Thea Djordjadze: Framing Yours Making Mine
In this comprehensive show, Georgian artist Thea Djordjadze’s spare sculptural works emanate a sen...
Hurvin Anderson, Michael Armitage, Alberta Whittle and other artists from the African diaspora consi...
A post-apocalyptic landscape or an abandoned toolshed? This compact exhibition, by ceramics sculptor...
This show looks at how John Singer Sargent styled his sitters, insisting they wore certain garments ...
Francis Picabia: Women: Works on Paper 1902-1950
A career-spanning exhibition of drawings and watercolours shows the elusive modernist Francis Picabi...
Entangled Pasts, 1768–now: Art, Colonialism and Change
The Royal Academy, founded at the height of the British empire, brings together more than 100 histor...
Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You
As poetic as it is urgent, Barbara Kruger’s text-based work packs a weighty punch. Her methods of ...
Moon/King: The Work and Friendship of Phillip King and Jeremy Moon – 195...
Phillip King and Jeremy Moon met as students at Cambridge and remained friends until Moon’s death ...
A flurry of museum and gallery exhibitions flags a surge of interest in Korean art. The most compell...
Through paintings, works on paper and projections, this exhibition traces the evolution of AARON, th...
Gayle Chong Kwan – interview: ‘I’ve made a connection between displa...
Gayle Chong Kwan talks about using sand and sugar to make historic and contemporary connections betw...
Spanning seven decades of Yoko Ono’s groundbreaking work, from the 1950s to now, some done with Jo...
Leo Robinson – interview: ‘Human beings need meaningful symbols and na...
Leo Robinson, whose exhibition Dream-Bridge-Omniglyph is now at the London Mithraeum, considers his ...
Outi Pieski – interview: ‘Contemporary art museums in general are spac...
Small carved figures, knotted fringes and historic hats represent Outi Pieski’s Sámi heritage as ...
These Mad Hybrids: John Hoyland and Contemporary Sculpture
In this joyous and eccentric show, Hoyland’s jaunty ceramic sculptures are shown alongside equally...
Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art
The 50 artists in this formidable show have all used textiles to tell powerful stories of resistance...
Ronald Davis – interview: ‘Two artists who use perspective in their wo...
Ronald Davis talks about his art and how he started out in the 1960s, his friendship with Judy Chica...
Charles Holden’s Master Plan: Building the Bloomsbury Campus* and Warbur...
Spanning master plans and covert models, these two exhibitions conjure up a point in the early 1930s...
Frank Auerbach: The Charcoal Heads
Repeatedly drawing the same sitters from among his circle of close friends, Auerbach conveys his sub...
Jacqueline Poncelet: In the Making
After years of resistance, Jacqueline Poncelet has facilitated a full retrospective of 50 years of h...
The Hayward Gallery’s spring exhibition is an effervescent playground of kinetically inclined scul...
This show celebrating the centenary of the local artist who became internationally famous includes m...
This major new show pays homage to Kngwarray, an Indigenous Australian who, though she only began pa...
A History of Women in 101 Objects: A Walk Through Female History – book ...
A suffragette’s medal, a 16th-century dildo and a hatpin are just some of the fascinating items th...
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