20 June 2006 | Books
From the Guardian: “next March Perennial will release Belinda Rathbone’s The Guynd, which traces the true story of how an American art historian fell in love with an eccentric Scottish laird.”
19 June 2006 | Modern, Museums
Abattoirs, spittle, ancient medallions and big toes feature, as expected, in “Undercover Surrealism,” the Hayward Gallery’s tribute to Georges Bataille. Most reviewers note that the erstwhile publisher of Documents is now accorded the place of honor long reserved for Andre Breton. Read reviews by Bryan Appleyard, Laura Cumming (“fetishes, voodoo dolls, two-faced African gods, wax [...]
19 June 2006 | Baroque/Neoclassical
With Ingres recently featured at the Louvre, Didier Rykner took the opportunity to review eight recent Ingres-related books. He can’t accept Allard and Chaudonneret’s claim that the master overturned the hierarchy of genres, or that his small paintings from the late 1810s are not troubadour pictures, but he praises Stéphane Guégan for questioning the taboo [...]
19 June 2006 | Modern
