by Ben Lima | 14 October 2010 | Baroque/Neoclassical, Books, Modern, Photography, Renaissance
Recently in the papers:
- In the Economist, reviews of Eadweard Muybridge at the Tate, and Bronzino at the Palazzo Strossi.
- In the FT, Jackie Wullschlager on four books on Caravaggio (Strinati, Fried, Graham-Dixon, Schütze).
- At the NYRBlog, a teaser of Willibald Sauerländer’s article on Franz Xaver Messerschmidt.
- In the Guardian, Rosemary Hill on the pre-Raphaelites and Italy at the Ashmolean, and Alan Hollinghurst on Gauguin at Tate Modern.
- James Elkins debuts a column at the Huffington Post, with an installment on Mondrian.*
- In the NYT, Janet Maslin reviews R. Tripp Evans, Grant Wood: A Life (Knopf).
- At BadAtSports, a podcast with Elkins on “Beyond the Aesthetic and Anti-Aesthetic.”
- At SpiegelOnline, a review of Thorsten Klapsch’s book on Berlin’s Palast der Republik.
* This is the single best use of the internet public sphere to communicate disciplinary expertise that I have seen. The HP is a general-interest publication, but the topic of this column isn’t simply criticism, still less auction price/scandal/etc. Rather, it is a (brief) piece of serious, detailed analysis with excellent illustrations. I hope HP readers will be tempted to click away from the slide shows on Bristol Palin, Miley Cyrus and Minka Kelly, and over to Elkins.
