John Bokor Still Life 1 2012 graphite gesso on paper 50x60cm
MARYANNE COUTTS
a wall-sized watercolour of an asylum-seeker boat burning on the water, an image from the media of a boat that was set alight on Ashmore Reef,
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recent time and place work
SARAH GOFFMAN
Sarah Goffman Plastic Arts 2009 (blue pen on plastic and paper)
Decorating the surface of her juice-bottle vases, paper plates and yoghurt pots, Goffman restores a kind of individual artistry and care to the pre-industrial copy, marrying it with post-industrial waste.
Bec Dean (read more)
CAI GUO-QIANG
Cai Guo-Qiang | China b.1957 | Dragon or Rainbow Serpent: A myth glorified or feared (drawings) Project for extraterrestrials no. 261996 Spent gunpowder and Indian ink on Japanese paper | Nine drawings: 300 x 200cm (each) Queensland Art Gallery. Read more
WORSAAE
Worsaae, under the commission of Christian VIII of Denmark, spent nine months travelling around Britain and Ireland during 1846 and 1847. One of the most famous Scandinavian antiquarians of the nineteenth century, he had spent time visiting Sweden, Austria, Germany and Switzerland during the preceding years. The terms of his royal commission, as they related to his tour of Britain and Ireland, primarily focused on an investigation of the Viking-age antiquities and monuments of Scandinavian character.
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY DENTISTRY STUDENTS
The small but delightful Historical Dental Museum at the Temple University School of Dentistry in Philadelphia has a lovely collection of antique dental student teaching aids. Some of the best items were created by students as part of their graduation requirements and then left behind, like the set of blue wax teeth above. Every student was required to carve a set of teeth like this to demonstrate intimate knowledge of the anatomy of each tooth. The practice ended in the 1970s, but according to a plaque at the museum, the practice was recently reintroduced.
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SUZANNE TRIESTER
Born in 1935, Stella Rimington was Director-General of MI5 from 1992 - 1996. Her roles have included and been divided between the Security Services, archival work, amateur dramatics, family and spy-fiction writing.
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VALENTIN DE BOULOGNE
Valentin de Boulogne The Concert
1622-25
Oil on canvas, 173 x 214 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris
YVES KLEIN
above
Yves Klein Leap into the Void 1962
photograph
above
Yves Klein Anthropometrie 1960.
pigment and medium on canvas
MARGARET ROBERTS
Margaret Roberts Redcheck 2004
interactive drawing installation, old Tin Sheds gallery
(gallery building, unbound iron oxide, swings, handtowels, wall hangers, visitors)
GABRIELLA MANGANO & SILVANA MANGANO
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GABRIELLA
MANGANO & SILVANA MANGANO
Drawing 1, 2001 single-channel SD 4:3 edition of 5 |
JOAN JONAS
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| Joan Jonas, THE SHAPE, THE SCENT, THE FEEL OF THINGS, 2004-2007 Performance, Dia:Beacon, New York, 2005. |
JOHN CONSTABLE
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Constable:
Drawing according to Cozens. (From Gombrich, E. H. [2000]. Art
and Illusion.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press; pp. 176-177.)
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MARK DION
Mark Dion staged an installation
inside the 18th century house at Bartram's Garden, a wonderful historic
treasure on the banks of the Schuylkill. The installation is right at home
here.
Here he has put on display quirky artifacts--from seeds to carcases to tourist kitsch--that Dion collected while following in naturalist William Bartram's footsteps through the south at the time the Revolutionary War was brewing, in the 1770s. William is the son of John Bartram, America's first native botanist and the original owner of the estate on the Schuylkill. The project was conceived an commissioned by Philadelphia curator Julie Courtney. (read more)
Here he has put on display quirky artifacts--from seeds to carcases to tourist kitsch--that Dion collected while following in naturalist William Bartram's footsteps through the south at the time the Revolutionary War was brewing, in the 1770s. William is the son of John Bartram, America's first native botanist and the original owner of the estate on the Schuylkill. The project was conceived an commissioned by Philadelphia curator Julie Courtney. (read more)
GIORGIO MORANDI
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GEORGES BRAQUE
Georges Braque
'Fox', 1911
drypoint
Georges Braque was the original Cubist alongside Picasso. Pictures like this are composed of a series of 'instants', of glances from different vantage points. Moving around the subject in space and time, or perhaps turning the subject around in one's mind.
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MARCEL DUCHAMP
Marcel Duchamp,
Nude descending a staircase, 1912
oil on canvas
147 x 89.2cm
Duchamp's Nude descending a staircase is a painting from his early career. It could be argued that this painting represents a misunderstanding of cubism - a use of the planar language of cubism but retaining the wholeness of the body in the void of space, and choosing a subject that is a moving entity, rather than moving around a still subject. Nevertheless, it conveys an effective sense of the passage of time.
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