Tag: Britain
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Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain 1945-1965
The Barbican’s craggy, pockmarked concrete walls provide the perfect setting for this rediscovery of art produced in the aftermath of war and trauma
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Martin Parr – Interview: ‘Britain is eternally fascinating … full of contradictions … Photographing it is a form of therapy’
Documentary photographer Martin Parr’s latest exhibition, Only Human, at the National Portrait Gallery, is all about us – us humans, but especially us British. Here, he talks about cake, collecting and Britain in the time of Brexit
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Age of Transparency and Innocence: the Changing Face of Childhood
The Changing Face of Childhood: British Children’s Portraits and their Influence in Europe Städel Museum, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany and Dulwich Picture Gallery, London. Germany: DuMont Literatur und Kunst Verlag, 2007
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New German Painting – book review
Christoph Tannert (ed). New German Painting. Munich/Berlin/London/New York: Prestel, 2006 ISBN: 3791336665
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Modernism: Designing a New World, 1914-1939
Victoria and Albert Museum, London 6 April-23 July 2006 The catalogue promotion for this remarkable exhibition of early 20th-century design pioneers suggests that the contemporary built environment was ‘largely shaped by Modernism’. This is simply not true. The reality was…
