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The Flight to Egypt. Father and son Tiepolo vary a theme.
Not translated: Die Staatsgalerie Stuttgart besitzt ein relativ kleines Bild von Giambattista Tiepolo: „Die Ruhe auf der Flucht nach Ägypten“. Für einen ausgezeichneten Hof- und Freskomaler ist die Größe von nur 55,5 x 41,5 cm tatsächlich ungewöhnlich, zumal es sich hier nicht um einen Bozzetto, einen Fresko-Entwurf handelt, sondern um eins von vier überlieferten Gemälden […]
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The Cries of London; exhibiting several of the itinerant traders of antient and modern times. London 1839 , Posthumous Edition
“Now as the Cries of London are sometimes the topic of conversation, the author of the present work is not without the hope of finding, amongst the more aged as well as juvenile readers, many to whom it may prove acceptable, inasmuch as it not only exhibits several Itinerant Traders and other persons of various […]
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John Thomas Smith and the Invention of Investigative Social Reportage IV: Inner Africa
Abriged version. For footnotes please see the more detailed German version. 6) Inner Africa For Smith, the street cries pictures had a decisive advantage in comparison to the costume book. It was a speaking medium associated with the acoustic notion of original sound meant to suggest directness and authenticity. Every vendor was attributed a unique […]
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Vagabondiana; or, Anecdotes of Mendicant Wanderers through the Streets of London; Drawn from the Life, London 1817
In the first decade of the 19th century the bourgeoisie felt increasingly pestered by the exploding army of beggars and pedlars. A royal commission of inquiry was appointed to remedy this, and in 1815 published a first Mendicity and Vagrancy Report. The commission´s recommendations resulted in countering the problem of homelessness and beggary with strict […]
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John Thomas Smith and the Invention of Investigative Social Reportage III: The Cries of London
Abriged version. For footnotes please see the more detailed German version. 5) The Cries of London In Great Britain, the years after Waterloo were characterised by a deep economic depression. Big cities were flooded by jobless persons, war invalids and discharged soldiers. While visiting London in 1820, Théodore Gericault captured the descending social misery in […]
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“Magnificent bite” or “Damn punch in the face” ? ———- Abdul Jossot hits Charlie Hebdo …. and the FAZ misses.
Not translated: Das Charlie Hebdo-Massaker hat viele Kommentatoren der internationalen Feuilletons in die Bredouille gebracht. Wie sollte man auf die Schnelle dieses offenbar speziell französische Phänomen eines auf äußerte Konfrontation gerichteten politischen Cartooning erklären, zu deren Drastik sich die übrigen nationalen Karikaturschulen offenbar wie Messdiener zu einer Bande bekiffter Hells Angels verhalten? Wie Licht in […]
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Think about Horthy! The interventionist art of Mihály Biró
The Melton Prior Institute is represented in the exhibition “Turning Points. The Twentieth Century through 1914, 1939, 1989 and 2004 ” at the Hungarian National Gallery Budapest with an extensive installation. The arrangement “Gondolj Horthyra / Think about Horthy” which opens up this display of contemporary artworks reflecting the complex history of the 20th century […]
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John Thomas Smith and the Invention of Investigative Social Reportage II: Republican Palaces
Abriged version. For footnotes please see the more detailed German version. -3) Republican Palaces -4) Digression I: Blake’s Cottage 3) Republican Palaces Remarks on Rural Scenery is Smith’s shortest publication. It consists of a sequence of twenty etchings that were all made “after nature” and depict the most various kinds of rural housings for […]
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John Thomas Smith and the Invention of Investigative Social Reportage I: Real Views
Abriged version. For footnotes please see the more detailed German version. – 1) Introduction – 2) Real views 1) Introduction The beginnings of investigative social reportage are usually sought in the Victorian age, in the 1840s, the founding period of illustrated magazines dedicated to daily politics. But graphic social journalism had already been formulated decades […]
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Jan Vegter´s art of processing memory. A biographical sketch.
Jan Vegter was born March 29, 1927, in Voorburg (The Netherlands). He died there in 2009. Almost his entire life he lived in this small town near The Hague. Jan got his education as an artist at the Royal Academy at The Hague from 1945 till 1950. One of his teachers was Willem Rozendaal (1899 […]