Art Nouveau: Politics and Style
Paul Greenhalgh provides some background to the V&A's 'Art Nouveau' exhibition.
Paul Greenhalgh provides some background to the V&A's 'Art Nouveau' exhibition.
Sugar magnate and art lover Henry Tate died on December 5th, 1899, aged 80.
Michael Camille shows how the marginal illustrations of a 14th-century psalter became some of our most familiar images of everyday life in medieval England.
The illustrator and author died on March 16th, 1898.
Richard Cavendish remembers the events of February 11th, 1948
The artist was born in London on November 10th, 1697.
Partha Mitter looks at how tensions and cultural interchange between Indians and Britons are conveyed in the imagery of the colonial period.
Alex Barker on Harlem's cultural heyday.
Ray Boston examines two books on cartoons and caricatures.
Brian Winston casts a critical eye over Leni Riefenstahl's cinematic paean to Nazi aesthetics.