"This stunning catalogue of the major Royal Academy of Arts exhibition, surveys the American artist's powerful response to the Western Art "great style" history-painting tradition. While registering his artistic ancestry, from Giotto's Renaissance frescoes to Picasso's Guernica (1937), Marshall situates the historically absent and marginalised Black figure at the centre of his striking, large-scale compositions, and at the heart of his narratives."
"Minimalism as a movement is regularly dissected and deconstructed, but this publication, accompanying the Bourse de Commerce Pinault Collection show, "points to the ongoing need to dig deeper into the less documented and established histories and figures from this time [1960s onwards]", writes the curator Jessica Morgan. Overlooked artists such as Meg Websterand Kishio Suga of Japan are among the practitioners surveyed and reassessed."
"Tate Britain's exhibition catalogue takes us through Lee Miller's many lives: Vogue, experiments with Man Ray, portraits of famous friends, photographing the horrors of Buchenwald and Dachau. Miller's exceptional work is the focus here, but it is impossible to separate it from her remarkable life. As the novelist Deborah Levy writes in her catalogue essay: "[Miller] stepped out of the delicate gowns of a fashion model and into the khaki uniform of a war photographer. Yet so much work and life had happened in between.""
Kerry James Marshall's catalogue surveys his powerful engagement with the Western history-painting tradition, placing historically absent and marginalized Black figures at the centre of large-scale compositions that reference artistic ancestors from Giotto to Picasso. Minimal, curated by Jessica Morgan, revisits Minimalism and emphasizes the need to excavate less-documented histories and overlooked practitioners such as Meg Webster and Kishio Suga. Tate Britain's Lee Miller catalogue traces Miller's multiple careers — Vogue model, Man Ray collaborator, portraitist, and war photographer who documented Buchenwald and Dachau — and foregrounds the inseparability of her life and work. Celia Paul's half-century survey presents haunting paintings with high-production, linen-bound reproductions.
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