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> <channel><title>California Literary Review &#187; Art</title> <atom:link href="http://calitreview.com/category/topics/art/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://calitreview.com</link> <description>An arts and culture magazine.</description> <lastBuildDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 17:23:39 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2</generator> <item><title>Art Review – Yves Saint Laurent: The Retrospective, Denver Art Museum</title><link>http://calitreview.com/26815</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/26815#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 12:55:55 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Holly Hunt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fashion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Coco Chanel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Denver Art Museum]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Paul Poiret]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Yves Saint Laurent]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=26815</guid> <description><![CDATA[And that little black dress worn by Catherine Deneuve is as much an idea as a dress – the quintessential modernist fashion statement reduced to its absolute essentials. Its tidy collar and cuffs evoke both the modest office dress and the schoolgirl’s (or maid’s) uniform, but they are not white – the cuffs and collar are of delicate ivory satin, advertising not the wearer’s cleanliness, but her distance from labor of any kind.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/26815/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Dawn of Egyptian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York</title><link>http://calitreview.com/26120</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/26120#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:02:32 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ancient Egypt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=26120</guid> <description><![CDATA[The statue is nicknamed “The Lady of Brussels” because its home museum is in Belgium. It is one of the oldest free-standing statues in the world, dated to around 2695 BC. The “Lady” certainly has her charms. She is wearing one of the extraordinary wigs that were such a noteworthy item of feminine beauty in Ancient Egypt. But her restrained, submissive pose somehow disappoints when contrasted with the energy and mysticism of the mysterious “Bird Woman,” created a thousand years earlier.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/26120/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York</title><link>http://calitreview.com/25651</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/25651#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:54:41 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Byzantium]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[eighth century]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Middle Ages]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ninth century]]></category> <category><![CDATA[seventh century]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=25651</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Metropolitan Museum exhibition charts the fascinating, if complex, process of cultural transformation that took place throughout the Middle East during the seventh to ninth centuries. For all of the thrust-and-parry military campaigns that took place, a spirit of mutual accommodation often characterized relations between the Byzantine Empire and the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates that governed the Islamic world for much of the Middle Ages.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/25651/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>John Constable: Oil Sketches from the Victoria and Albert Museum</title><link>http://calitreview.com/25216</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/25216#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:02:02 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art landscapes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art romantic]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Frist Center for the Visual Arts]]></category> <category><![CDATA[John Constable]]></category> <category><![CDATA[nineteenth century]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Princeton University Art Museum]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=25216</guid> <description><![CDATA[Constable's approach to landscape painting, however, was far more than an exercise in nostalgia. Instead, he rooted his appreciation of nature in the "here and now" of everyday life. Through paintings like <em>Hampstead Heath, Branch Hill Pond</em>, Constable presented scenes of human beings interacting with nature, not despoiling it. With these works, he bequeathed a sense of the precious nature of the world around us, in whatever age and place we call home.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/25216/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Forgotten Sculpture of John B. Flannagan</title><link>http://calitreview.com/25018</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/25018#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:30:53 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Holly Hunt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[After Image]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art modern]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art primitivism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[John B. Flannagan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sculpture]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=25018</guid> <description><![CDATA[His sculptures, like his wonderful <em>Elephant</em> of 1929-1930, or his <em>Chimpanzee</em> of 1928, were often carved directly from the rock; they are both roughhewn and elegant, radically simple but powerfully emotional, immediately evoking both the natural forms of the stones from which they are made, and the living creatures they represent.  It’s sad to think of them languishing in obscurity.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/25018/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York</title><link>http://calitreview.com/24924</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/24924#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:46:45 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Alfred Stieglitz]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ambroise Vollard]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art avant-garde]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art impressionist]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art modern]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Camera Work]]></category> <category><![CDATA[cezanne]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gertrude Stein]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Henry Matisse]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Leo Stein]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[michael stein]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Picasso]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=24924</guid> <description><![CDATA[Explaining the daring additions of paintings by Matisse and Picasso to the Stein collection, Leo wrote a friend in the United States, “All our recent accessions are unfortunately by people you never heard of so there’s no use trying to describe them, except that one of those out of the salon [the Matisse] made everybody laugh except a few who got mad about it and two other pictures are by a young Spaniard named Picasso whom I consider a genius of very great magnitude.”]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/24924/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Art Review: Garry Winogrand: Women are Beautiful, Denver Art Museum</title><link>http://calitreview.com/24766</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/24766#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:11:14 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Holly Hunt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fashion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Denver Art Museum]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Garry Winogrand]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=24766</guid> <description><![CDATA[The pair make their way through a crowded New York park. At the woman’s neck, a whistle such as a lifeguard might use dangles like a pendant from a choker. Why is she wearing such a thing? Is it a form of DIY fashion, or an early version of a rape whistle, emblem of an increasing fear of street crime, as well as the greater sense of vulnerability felt by women in public? It’s impossible to know – Winogrand snapped the picture quickly, and the tilted framing of the subjects betrays its spontaneity.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/24766/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Rembrandt and Degas: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York</title><link>http://calitreview.com/24393</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/24393#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 03:18:05 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art portraiture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Degas]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[nineteenth century]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rembrandt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Renaissance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[seventeenth century]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=24393</guid> <description><![CDATA[But before he retreated into his private realm of race horses and ballet dancers, Degas was fully engaged with the contest of light and shadow in the spirit of Rembrandt. Degas was greatly affected by Rembrandt’s drawing skill, and the accomplished way that he reproduced his line art in etchings and dry point. The etchings of the Dutch master were an education in themselves.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/24393/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Book Review: The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination</title><link>http://calitreview.com/24294</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/24294#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 02:33:37 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Edward Burne-Jones]]></category> <category><![CDATA[nineteenth century]]></category> <category><![CDATA[William Morris]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=24294</guid> <description><![CDATA[It was at Oxford University that Burne-Jones found divine beauty and William Morris. They shared a love for medieval themes, what we now call Gothic Revival, and were attracted to the art of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Founded in 1848, the Pre-Raphaelites were a loose confederation of young artists in revolt against the false veneer of academic art.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/24294/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Book Review: Some of My Lives: A Scrapbook Memoir by Rosamond Bernier</title><link>http://calitreview.com/23990</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/23990#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:21:59 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Julia Braun Kessler</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Music]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Aaron Copeland]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Alberto Giacometti]]></category> <category><![CDATA[classical music]]></category> <category><![CDATA[David Hockney]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Diego Rivera]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Eugene Ormandy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Henry Matisse]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Henry Moore]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jerome Robbins]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Joan Miro]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Leonard Berstein]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Leopold Stowkowski]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Malcolm Lowry]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Max Ernst]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Philadelphia Orchestra]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Picasso]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rosamond Bernier]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Some of My Lives: A Scrapbook Memoir]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=23990</guid> <description><![CDATA[Rosamond’s very early experiences with the great and famous were connected with her father’s love for music. Because he headed the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia Orchestra, she went often to rehearsals and concerts as a child, and when conductors and soloists were invited to Sunday luncheons at the Rosenbaum’s regularly, she was enthralled by their artistic talk and liberated manners. Among those she encountered and admired then were Otto Klemperer. Nathan Milstein, Jose Iturbi, Eugene Ormandy among others. So collecting her anecdotal tales of their eccentricities and foibles began even then. She even speaks of the Philadelphia Orchestra as “her extended family.”]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/23990/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Art Review: Van Gogh Up Close, Philadelphia Museum of Art</title><link>http://calitreview.com/23785</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/23785#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:00:48 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art expressionism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art landscapes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art Pointillism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art post-Impressionism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art still lifes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Philadelphia Museum of Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Van Gogh]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=23785</guid> <description><![CDATA[Indeed, if you can manage it in the crowded museum galleries, select a painting, perhaps <em>Wheatfield</em> from 1888, with its characteristic high horizon line. Study it from across the room. Then move closer and you will see an amazing transformation, an act of alchemy, in which the inner life of plants, trees, underbrush, even clouds and drops of rain are revealed.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/23785/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia</title><link>http://calitreview.com/23495</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/23495#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:02:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art realism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Henry Ossawa Tanner]]></category> <category><![CDATA[PAFA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thomas Eakins]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=23495</guid> <description><![CDATA[This exhibition of the works of Henry Ossawa Tanner is the first major reappraisal of the great African-American painter in a generation. On display in the PAFA exhibit are over 100 of Tanner’s works, including twelve paintings never shown in a previous retrospective. Drawings, photographs, prints and the only two surviving sculptures created by Tanner are featured, along with his paintings.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/23495/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Into the Void: The Bicoastal Legacy of Weldon Kees</title><link>http://calitreview.com/23349</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/23349#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:46:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Holly Hunt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[After Image]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art abstract expressionism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Weldon Kees]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=23349</guid> <description><![CDATA[This is very different stuff than the angst of later confessional poets such as Lowell and Plath, whose despair is essentially personal, rooted in disappointment and disillusionment. Kees, by comparison, proposes that this is simply how it is, and does so with enough coolness and elegance that it comes as no surprise that Wallace Stevens wrote to Kees ordering a volume of a limited edition of his verse.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/23349/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Art Review: The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini, The Metropolitan Museum of Art</title><link>http://calitreview.com/22943</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/22943#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:54:38 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art portraiture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[fifteenth century]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Renaissance]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=22943</guid> <description><![CDATA[In his <em>Portrait of a Young Man</em>, painted in 1478, Antonello fused the psychological intensity of Byzantine icon painting with a close regard for his subject's unique, personal identity. Antonello died the year after he painted <em>Portrait of a Young Man</em>, but with this and a handful of similar works, he blazed a trail for all of the great portrait painters who came after him.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/22943/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Denver’s Clyfford Still Museum</title><link>http://calitreview.com/23003</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/23003#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:30:42 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Holly Hunt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Architecture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art abstract expressionism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Clyfford Still Museum]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=23003</guid> <description><![CDATA[In 1959, he referred to esteemed critic Clement Greenberg and others as “wandering mongrels” only able to “cock a leg” against work they could not understand.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/23003/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>West of Center: Art and the Countercultural Experiment in America, 1965 -1977, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver</title><link>http://calitreview.com/22749</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/22749#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:00:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Holly Hunt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[1960s]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art contemporary]]></category> <category><![CDATA[MCA Denver]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=22749</guid> <description><![CDATA[Earnest rather than ironic, unashamedly idealistic, unafraid of appearing amateurish and haphazard, many of the contents of this exhibition have the air of artifacts from a lost world.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/22749/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Art Review: Two Chinese Exhibitions at the Denver Art Museum</title><link>http://calitreview.com/22783</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/22783#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:01:40 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Holly Hunt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[China]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Denver Art Museum]]></category> <category><![CDATA[textiles]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=22783</guid> <description><![CDATA[This was a world in which the color of the glass finial on one’s hat indicated with precision one’s rank at court; in which the bird or animal embroidered in silk and gold thread on a silken badge indicated a civil or military official’s place in the hierarchy. (Degrees of civil officialdom were represented by birds such as cranes or pheasants, while military rank was indicated by fiercer animals, such as tigers, leopards, lions, and the legendary <em>quilin</em>.) ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/22783/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Book Review: Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith</title><link>http://calitreview.com/22440</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/22440#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:18:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Van Gogh]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=22440</guid> <description><![CDATA[For an artist who vied with Rembrandt in painting self-portraits, van Gogh seldom allowed himself to be photographed. The one surviving photo, from his days at Goupil’s, shows a scowling, tousled haired young man with troubled, searching eyes. It is the face of a man destined to be a prophet or a lunatic.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/22440/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Art Review: Transition to Christianity, Onassis Cultural Center, New York City</title><link>http://calitreview.com/22369</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/22369#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 03:03:41 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Archeology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ancient Greece]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ancient history]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ancient Rome]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Byzantium]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=22369</guid> <description><![CDATA[After Christianity was recognized as the official state religion of the Roman Empire in 380, a number of Christian groups, notably monks in Egypt, changed roles from martyrs to persecutors. A magnificent head of Aphrodite, dating to first century Athens, bears the marks of Christian vandalism. The eyes and lips have been chipped to “blind” and “silence” the deity. A cross was then inscribed on the forehead of Aphrodite.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/22369/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Weekly Listicle Is Rated NC-17</title><link>http://calitreview.com/22021</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/22021#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:55:19 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Best Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bernardo Bertolucci]]></category> <category><![CDATA[censorship]]></category> <category><![CDATA[dark comedy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[David Cronenberg]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie rating]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie ratings]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies adult]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies comedy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies Drama]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies romance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mpaa]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mpaa rating]]></category> <category><![CDATA[MPAA ratings]]></category> <category><![CDATA[NC-17]]></category> <category><![CDATA[NC-17 rating]]></category> <category><![CDATA[NC17]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Peter Greenaway]]></category> <category><![CDATA[X rating]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=22021</guid> <description><![CDATA[Censors save the NC-17 rating for extra special cases, and in practice it feels like much less artificial than, say, PG-13. Something about these films transcended the extremely liberal boundaries of the R rating, and in most cases the reasons are still apparent.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/22021/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Madness and Mesmerism: Charles Deas Revisited</title><link>http://calitreview.com/21569</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/21569#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:16:45 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Holly Hunt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[After Image]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Charles Deas]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mental illness]]></category> <category><![CDATA[nineteenth century]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=21569</guid> <description><![CDATA[Put as simply as possible, Matthews thought he was being tortured and his thoughts disrupted by remote control, via magnetic currents produced by a machine called the “air loom.” Matthew’s “air loom” was operated by a gang of seven: villainous Bill the King, wisecracking Jack the Schoolmaster, crude Sir Archy, the enigmatic Middle Man, scheming Augusta, poor, maltreated Charlotte, and the sinister Glove Woman, the most skilled operator of the machine.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/21569/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Art Review: Robert Adams: The Place We Live, Denver Art Museum</title><link>http://calitreview.com/21476</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/21476#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:45:56 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Holly Hunt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Denver Art Museum]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Robert Adams]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=21476</guid> <description><![CDATA[The photographs in the retrospective are animated by the yearning for a sense of place, of belonging and by regret at seeing that place forever slipping out of reach, as a consequence of environmental heedlessness and of the inevitable passage of time.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/21476/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Art Review: Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O&#8217;Keeffe, The Metropolitan Museum of Art</title><link>http://calitreview.com/21325</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/21325#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:00:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Alfred Stieglitz]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art avant-garde]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art cubism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art modern]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art pictorialism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Arthur Dove]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Auguste Rodin]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Brancusi]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Charles Demuth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Clarence White]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Georgia O’Keefe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gertrude Käsebier]]></category> <category><![CDATA[John Marin]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Marius de Zayas]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Marsden Hartley]]></category> <category><![CDATA[matisse]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Paul Strand]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Picasso]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Vasily Kandinsky]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=21325</guid> <description><![CDATA[Beginning with paintings, drawings and a limited number of sculptures by such “wild men” as Matisse, Picasso and Brancusi, Stieglitz went on to champion works created by American painters in the years following World War I. His one-man crusade met with a very mixed reception. Many in the New York art establishment viewed Stieglitz as a cultural anarchist, intent on dynamiting the Beaux-Arts foundation of American art.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/21325/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Art Review: Charles Dickens at 200, The Morgan Library and Museum</title><link>http://calitreview.com/20918</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/20918#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:00:21 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Charles Dickens]]></category> <category><![CDATA[nineteenth century]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=20918</guid> <description><![CDATA[Dickens’ novels probed the social ills of Victorian England in order to create unforgettable images of human misery and redemption in the minds of the literary public. Conscious of how the accompanying illustrations to his text would help in this respect, Dickens worked very closely with the artists who provided these memorable pictures.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/20918/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Art Review: de Kooning: A Retrospective, MoMA</title><link>http://calitreview.com/20278</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/20278#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Arshile Gorky]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art abstract expressionism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[MoMA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Willem de Kooning]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=20278</guid> <description><![CDATA[De Kooning exhibited six "Bitch Goddess" paintings when most American men preferred to watch Marilyn Monroe stand over a steam vent. These paintings, as Robert Harris observed, are rooted in the "simultaneous desire for and fear of women." De Kooning may not have intended to paint <em>Woman I</em> to express these suppressed emotions. But that is what he put on the canvas and he may have been as perplexed as his critics as to how it got there.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/20278/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Maryhill Museum of Art, One Hundred Miles East of Portland</title><link>http://calitreview.com/20249</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/20249#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:34:19 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Holly Hunt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[After Image]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Maryhill Museum of Art]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=20249</guid> <description><![CDATA[Mannequins in pale satins and gauzy tulle pose in a lofty attic whose roof has been torn open as if by an air raid, revealing a black and white cityscape seen as if from the angle of a pilot.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/20249/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Book Review: Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and Peter F. Neumeyer</title><link>http://calitreview.com/20026</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/20026#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:18:40 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Children's Literature]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Edward Gorey]]></category> <category><![CDATA[memoir]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=20026</guid> <description><![CDATA[Neumeyer responded with scholarly esprit, but he was hard put to equal his partner’s digressions. The works of Jorge Luis Borges, the wonders of Japanese court poetry, the inadequacy of <em>The Yellow Submarine</em> – having found a sympathetic spirit, Gorey let loose a torrent of opinions about anything in his path.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/20026/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Purity and Danger: The Many Lives of the Italian Renaissance</title><link>http://calitreview.com/19530</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/19530#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:58:45 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Holly Hunt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[After Image]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Renaissance]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=19530</guid> <description><![CDATA[More importantly, the good-for-you, vitamin-enriched Renaissance we know today is itself a fairly recent, and largely American, historical construction.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/19530/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Art Review: Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus, Philadelphia Museum of Art</title><link>http://calitreview.com/19138</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/19138#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:07:08 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[judaism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rembrandt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Renaissance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[seventeenth century]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=19138</guid> <description><![CDATA[Living in close proximity to the growing Jewish population of Amsterdam, the biblically-minded Rembrandt experienced an artistic epiphany of lasting significance. Why not paint the portrait of Jesus, a 1st Century Jew from Galilee, using a live model with Jewish features? The resulting portraits, seven out of a likely eight that were painted, now grace the walls of a landmark exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/19138/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Art Review: Avant-Garde Art in Everyday Life, Art Institute of Chicago</title><link>http://calitreview.com/19059</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/19059#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 14:42:38 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Nivedita Gunturi</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[1920s]]></category> <category><![CDATA[1930s]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art constructivist]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art Institute of Chicago]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bauhaus]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Constructivism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Constructivist]]></category> <category><![CDATA[El Lissitzky]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gustav Klutsis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[John Heartfield]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Karel Teige]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ladislav Sutnar]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Piet Zwart]]></category> <category><![CDATA[propaganda]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=19059</guid> <description><![CDATA[Stasis, whether in art, life, economics or political culture, was distasteful and to be done away with. Having spent much of the 1920’s doing typographic and book design as well as designing toys and puppets, Sutnar was well-placed to bring his left-of-center, democracy-inspired radicalism to everything from porcelain to book covers.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/19059/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
