Tate glossary definition for sublime: Theory developed by Edmund Burke in the mid eighteenth century, where he defined sublime art as art that refers to a greatness beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement or imitation
conversant about terrible objects or operates in a manner
Tate glossary definition for caricature: A painting, or more usually drawing, of a person or thing in which the features and form have been distorted and exaggerated in order to mock or satirise the subject
Rowlandson who produced brilliant caricatures of the manners
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life painted in a realist, often sentimentalised, manner
‚This is my Birthday‘ is a book which was compiled by Anita Bartle from her column published in the Daily Chronicle. These daily extracts consisted of quotations relating to a famous person who was born on that day. This is a partial, annotated copy (29 Mar to 30 Dec) with autograph signatures, notes, musical notations and sketches by (among others): Austrian conductor Hans Richter (né János Richter) (music); Eugen d’Albert (music); John Davidson (quotation); George Clausen (night-time scene); Edward Gregory (signature); Arthur Christopher Benson (poem); Lord Avebury aka John Lubbock (quotation from Shakespeare); Cedric Bucknall (music and sketches); Edward Dowden …
Picture New Sculpture New English Art Club Grand Manner
This special postcard with a preprinted form was sent to Jacques Lipchitz to Toulouse from Paris. Lipchitz stayed in Toulouse in ‚the free zone‘ (Vichy governement) of France, after fleeing Paris, occupied by Nazis, and while waiting for the possibility to leave the country and enter the USA. When Lipchitz left Paris for Toulouse on his way to the United States, he entrusted the care of his house and his works of art to Jeanne Bucher. Special postcards were issued by German military government of the occupied zone, based in Paris. They hold instructions how to fill them up: ‚After …
cards, where information is not only of the family manner
This special postcard with a preprinted form was sent to Jacques Lipchitz to Toulouse from Paris. Lipchitz stayed in Toulouse in ‚the free zone‘ (Vichy governement) of France, after fleeing Paris, occupied by Nazis, and while waiting for the possibility to leave the country and enter the USA. When Lipchitz left Paris for Toulouse on his way to the United States, he entrusted the care of his house and his works of art to Jeanne Bucher. Special postcards were issued by German military government of the occupied zone, based in Paris. They hold instructions how to fill them up: ‚After …
cards, where information is not only of the family manner
short film about artist Hans Haacke
But the ideas are born in an uncontrolled manner.
31 December Dear Annerl! Maybe I’ll arrive there just as quickly as this letter – but I have to write it, not least because I’ll be walking through the English Garden to collect my Austrian passport this morning anyway, so I’ll be able to put it in the postbox myself. Letter from New Yorker Ellen (in England they call her Nanny!) was a pleasure to read, partly because the time away from home is easier to bear (it can hardly be much longer), partly because her soul seems to be dissolving into impatience and longing. Clifford told me about a …
only allowed to say ‘hello’ to his Ellen though all manner
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life painted in a realist, often sentimentalised, manner
Artist page for Paul Nash (1889–1946)
the 1930s, in an increasingly abstract and surreal manner
