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Tag: press graphics

  • The History of Press Graphics. 1819-1921.

    Alexander Roob’s “History of Press Graphics. 1819-1921. The Age of Graphic Journalism” is out now. (Taschen Cologne, Hardcover, 24.6 x 37.2 cm). In over 600 pages, this far-reaching compendium presents press illustration and graphic journalism as a distinct and unique genre and a laboratory for developing avant-garde aesthetics. The images are largely taken from the […]

  • 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 […]

  • “Elegant and dignified military operations in the present age.”  –  The imperfect invisibility of collateral damage in late 19th-century metropolitan illustrated magazines.

    Adapted (05/2014) with permission from the chapter of the same title: p. 205-232 of Stephen J. Rockel and Rick Halpern (ed.s) Inventing Collateral damage: Civilian Casualties, War, and Empire Between the Lines Press, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2009. ISBN 978-1-897071-12-0 This paper discusses some evidence of how overseas imperialism looked to imperialists at home, as the […]

  • Hubert Herkomer, 1849 – 1914. Exhibitions in Landsberg and Bushey

    The exhibition on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Hubert Herkomer, which runs at present in the City Museum Landsberg in Germany and which subsequently will be at display in Bushey near London, should actually be shown at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, at the Pinakothek in Munich and at the Tate Britain. […]

  • “Esprit Montmartre” – The perpetuation of the cliché

    Not translated: Zur Ausstellung “Esprit Montmartre. Die Bohème in Paris um 1900” in der Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. Das geballte Medienecho zur Ausstellung in der Schirn Kunsthalle klingt verheißungsvoll. Die Pariser Bohemekultur um die Jahrhundertwende erscheine hier in einem völlig neuen Licht, nicht länger in der realitätsfernen Weichzeichnung touristischer Projektion, vielmehr zeige sich der Montmartre hier, […]

  • Graphic Journalism and the Avant-garde – The ROSTA Windows of the Bolshevik Art Army.

    In a situation in which museums, put under pressure by the market, are increasingly withdrawing from their core business of basic historical research on the state of present-day art, it can happen that precisely in this regard they are overtaken by extraordinary initiatives of the market itself, by galleries, for instance, which are now taking […]

  • Porter / Re-porter: Blake revisited (Exhibition)

    In the exhibition Porter/Re-porter,  on view from 4 May to 22 September in the frame of “Cube. Sparda Art Award” at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Alexander Roob combines materials from the collection of the Melton Prior Institute with works of his own, including a longer excerpt from the eponymous CS drawing series created in London in […]

  • Alexandre Cabanel – Die Tradition der Biestigkeit (Ausstellungsbesprechung)

    Not translated: Cabanel, der Name klingt nach Parfüm und wird auch so beworben. Immerhin hat der Maler dahinter den Modezaren Christian Lacroix angelockt, der nun wiederum Besucher ins Kölner Wallraf-Richartz- Museum locken soll. Lacroix hat man dort nicht nur die Möglichkeit eingeräumt, sein künstlerisches Idol in Kachtelteppich und saucige Fototapete einzukleiden sondern auch noch zum […]

  • Willibald Krain and the Ashcan School. The Agony of Socio-Critical Press Graphics in the 20th Century

    Willibald Krain became known during the First World War for his pacifistic prints portfolio “Krieg” [War] which was published 1916 in Zurich in three different language versions. Along with his mentor, Käthe Kollwitz, Krain ranked among the very few socio-critical artists in 1920s Germany whose work was internationally acclaimed. His illustrations and paintings were published […]

  • David Friedmann , Press artist and painter (1893-1980)

    The painter and graphic artist David Friedmann lived in Berlin from 1911 and was a student of Herrmann Struck (etching) and Lovis Corinth (painting). Until the Nazis came to power in 1933, Friedmann was a successful artist producing late impressionist landscapes, still lifes, and nudes. In 1938, he fled with his young family to Prague only […]

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