Art

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.

Andrea Wolter-Abele looks at how machines and industrial society provoked new concepts of creativity.

Philip Mansel looks at interchange and intrigue in the cross-currents of 18th-century culture between East and West.