The new economic modelin Latin America and its impact on income distribution and poverty

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James Fenton

"James Fenton, one of England's most gifted poets, has in recent years been looking closely at works of art and writing incisively and inventively about them and their creators. Leonardo's Nephew collects fifteen pieces, most originally published in The New York Review of Books, in which he discusses a wide range of painting and sculpture, from the mummy portraits of ancient Egypt and the few surviving works of the fifteenth-century sculptor Andrea del Verrocchio to Seurat's bathers in the Seine, the boxes of Joseph Cornell, and the works of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns."--BOOK JACKET.

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William E. Jones

The photographs of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Photograph Collection form an extensive pictorial record of American life between 1935 and 1944. This volume publishes 157 rejected or 'killed' images submitted to the collection by photographers. The author uses these images to raise questions of why images would be 'killed' and to suggest that our present society would benefit from a similar photographic record of American life.

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Aileen Ribeiro

Costume, portraiture and the presentation of the individual have been intimately linked throughout the history of art. While the face of the person portrayed is often still directly accessible to us, the details and significance of their dress can be less easy to comprehend. Lavishly illustrated throughout with paintings, drawings, photographs and other works of art, this beautiful publication is centred around 190 examples from the National Portrait Gallerys Collection. Through these, the authors explore the purpose and original context of the dress in which the sitter was recorded the damasks, satins, velvets and furs of Tudor and Stuart magnificence worn by Queen Elizabeth I and Charles I, but also the revolutionary simplicity of the cottons, linens and woollen cloth adopted by Mary Wollstonecraft, John Constable and John Clare. Packed with photographs that provide additional insights into the clothes worn by sitters in their portraits, and complemented by related material including fabric designs and jewellery, this authoritative guide looks in detail at one of the most fascinating aspects of many well-known images of the last 600 years.

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[Texte, Jan Hoet, Arie Hartog

Summary: Bekannt wird Rainer Fetting mit einem Kreis von Maler-Kollegen, die 1977 gemeinsam in Berlin die Künstlergalerie am Moritzplatz gründen und bald unter dem Namen "Moritzboys" firmieren. Fetting wird ihr Star. Mit seiner schnellen, leuchtenden Malerei zählt er zu den "Jungen Wilden", die an verschiedenen Orten in Deutschland und der Welt Furore machen. Zu Beginn der achtziger Jahre sind seine Gemälde in wichtigen Ausstellungen wie "A New Spirit in Painting" in der Londoner Royal Academy oder "Zeitgeist" im Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin zu sehen.