Book Review: Linder: Danger Came Smiling – Artlyst
If you’re looking for a book that captures the raw energy, subversive brilliance, and unapologetic feminism of one of Britain’s… Read More
12 February 2025
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Cindy Sherman – Anti-fashion – Artlyst Book review
Cindy Sherman has long been recognised as a transformative figure in contemporary art. Her engagement with the fashion world…
16 January 2025
Art Monsters Unruly Bodies In Feminist Art Lauren Elkin – Penguin
A dazzlingly original reassessment of women’s stories, bodies and art – and how we think about them. For decades, feminist artists have confronted the problem of how to tell the truth
9 November 2023
Antony Gormley and Martin Gayford Present Visual Culture Throughout History – Edward Lucie-Smith
The big new Thames & Hudson book Shaping the World, by Antony Gormley and Martin Gayford, turns out to be a good deal better than the truly appalling plug for it recently published in The Sunday Times’ Culture Magazines, but it still exhibits a few problems.
25 November 2020
Blockbuster Rego, Freud And Murillo Books Released Autumn 2019 – Edward Lucie-Smith
A short time ago, it seemed as if making and publishing books about art – contemporary art, in particular, was a doomed enterprise.
18 September 2019
R.B. Kitaj – A Lost Leader – Edward Lucie-Smith
I’ve just been reading a remarkable book, published last year, that seems to have received almost no attention here in Britain, save for a brief anonymous review in The Guardian.
28 July 2018