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This important publication accompanies the first ever exhibition devoted to Vincentvan Gogh’s self-portraits across his entire career. The exhibition at the CourtauldGallery and accompanying catalogue feature world-famous and lesser known worksfrom the great artist.The myth of Van Gogh today is linked as much to his extraordinary life as it is to his stunning paintings. His biography has often shaped the way that his self-portraits have been (mis)understood. Van Gogh. Self-Portraits reconsiders this aspect of his production and places the artist’s self-representation in context to reveal the role it plays in his oeuvre. It also explores the power and profound emotion of these highly personal paintings.Van Gogh. Self-Portraits is the first time this theme has been exclusively addressed.Self-portraits painted during Van Gogh’s time in Paris (February 1886 – February 1888)have been the subject of two exhibitions (in 1960 at Marlborough Fine Arts in Londonand in 1995 at the Kunsthalle in Hamburg) but never has the full chronological rangebeen explored. The exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery features paintings from both the Parisian and Provençal periods. It brings together half of Van Gogh’s thirty-five known self-portraits to examine the ways the artist approached this particular subject-matter. On a practical level, painting himself provided Van Gogh with the cheapest and most patient of models and represented an important conduit for stylistic experimentation. He also used self-portraiture as an homage to his illustrious Dutch predecessor Rembrandt, as well as a way of fashioning his own identity and presenting himself to the outside world.Of particular interest is the striking way the evolution of Van Gogh’s self-representationover the short years of his artistic activity can be seen as a microcosm of his developmentas a painter.In addition to the world-famous Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear in The Courtauld’scollection, the exhibition showcases a group of major masterpieces brought togetherfrom international collections, including the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, theMusée d’Orsay in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago and the National Gallery of Art inWashington, D.C. among others. This beautifully illustrated catalogue includes detailed entries on each work, an appendix illustrating all of Van Gogh’s self-portraits and three insightful essays on the theme.
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Blitzkrieg and the Russian art of war moves beyond discussions of hybrid warfare to offer a broad account of contemporary Russian thinking on war. Exploring key concepts in Russian military thinking, it contributes to the debate about Russias role in international affairs and the challenge the country poses to the international order. A cutting-edge investigation of how Russia makes war.Russian strategy in the twenty-first century has been described in terms of hybrid warfare, an approach characterised by measures short of war, such as cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns. But as the invasion of Ukraine has brutally demonstrated, conventional armed violence remains a key element of Russian power. In Blitzkrieg and the Russian art of war, Andrew Monaghan offers a high-level view of Russian thinking about warfare. Drawing on extensive Russian sources, he addresses important questions that have been overlooked by most Western commentators: what is the military leaderships distinctive idea of twenty-first-century blitzkrieg? How does it understand holistic territorial defence? How does it manage the shifting balance between offence and defence? Introducing key concepts from Russian military thinking, Blitzkrieg and the Russian art of war is a crucial resource for understanding Russias resurgent role on the global stage and the devastating threat the country poses to the international order. Autorid: Andrew Monaghan
A landmark publication paying homage to the wealth of queer creativity in Britain between the 1860s and the 1960s. In 1967, sex between consenting men in England and Wales was finally decriminalised an entire century after the death penalty was abolished for sodomy in Britain in 1861. Between these legal landmarks lies a century of seismic shifts in gender and sexuality which found expression across the arts as artists, collectors and consumers explored transgressive identities, experiences and perspectives. Some of the resulting artworks were intensely personal, celebrating lovers or expressing private desires. Others addressed a wider public, helping to forge a sense of community at a time when the modern categories of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender were largely unrecognised. Ranging from the playful to the political, the explicit to the domestic, these works reveal the rich diversity of queer British art. This beautiful book explores coded desires in aestheticism; the impact of the new science of sexology; queer domesticities; eroticism in the artist's studio; intersections of gender and sexuality; seedy dives and visions of Arcadia; and love and lust in sixties Soho. Featuring works by major artists such as Simeon Solomon, Clare Atwood, Ethel Sands, Duncan Grant, Francis Bacon and David Hockney among others, Queer British Art pays homage to the wealth of queer creativity in Britain between the 1860s and the 1960s. Autorid: Clare Barlow
