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Tag: John Berger

Drawn into Being: the drawings of Louise Bourgeois and Jean Frémon’s Nativity

22nd December 202023rd December 2020  Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

In this creative ‘Christmas’ essay, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou reflects on the power and therapeutic potential of drawing in her own life, the artistic practise of Louise Bourgeois, and Jean Frémon’s new text Nativity (Les Fugitives).

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Books, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Ann Coxon, art, Art History, art therapy, Artist, Books in translation, Christmas, Cole Swensen, creativity, drawing, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou, Jean Frémon, John Berger, Languages, Les Fugitives, Louise Bourgeois, Lucy Lippard, Motherhood, Nativity, portraiture, pregnancy, Translation, unconscious

Postcards in Isolation 22: Luchita Hurtado, Untitled, 1971

19th August 202019th August 2020  Jennifer Brough

In Luchita Hurtado’s paintings, the nude female body is an affirmation of the self, a locus of solitude and personal care that reminds us to slow down and appreciate ourselves and others, writes Jennifer Brough.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Covid-19, Jennifer Brough, John Berger, Lockdown Living, Luchita Hurtado, New Mexico, Nude, painting, Postcards in Isolation, Rochelle Roberts, The Serpentine

Postcards in Isolation 11: Zinaida Serebriakova’s At the Dressing Table, 1909 and Dorothea Tanning’s Self Portrait, 1944

1st July 20201st July 2020  Sian Norris

Sian Norris reflects on the female gaze as captured in Zinaida Serebriakova’s At the Dressing Table, 1909, and when looking at Dorothea Tanning’s Self-Portrait, 1944, she considers the lack of freedom we have during lockdown.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: art, Covid-19, Dorothea Tanning, John Berger, Lockdown Living, Postcards in Isolation, Rochelle Roberts, Sian Norris, Tate Modern, the Sublime, Zinaida Serebriakova

The Renaissance Nude at the Royal Academy, London

2nd June 20193rd June 2019  Miriam Al Jamil

Renowned works by Titian, da Vinci, Dürer and Raphael feature in the Royal Academy’s recent exhibition, The Renaissance Nude, all of which throw light on the female as well as male gaze, observes our contributor Miriam al Jamil.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Bronzino, Christianity, da Vinci, Dürer, Female Gaze, Isabella d'Este, John Berger, Kenneth Clark, Male gaze, Michelangelo, Raphael, Royal Academy, Samuel Johnson, The Renaissance Nude, Titian, Ways of Seeing
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