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Showing posts with label portraiture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label portraiture. Show all posts
Friday, November 18, 2011

"A masterly portrait, and very like"

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I have been thinking quite a lot about portraiture lately, specifically an oddly widespread trope that crops up regularly in many British so...
Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Eyes that follow you around the room

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One of the strangest art clichés that still circulates endlessly—and I heard it again yesterday uttered by somebody who really ought to know...
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Angus Trumble
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Angus Trumble will begin work as Director of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia on February 10, 2014. He has been Senior Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut, since May 2003. Angus is the author of a number of books, including A Brief History of the Smile and The Finger: A Handbook, which has lately been published in New York by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, in London by Yale University Press, and by Melbourne University Publishing. He is an occasional contributor to the Burlington Magazine, Apollo, and a more regular one to The Times Literary Supplement, the Australian Book Review, and Esopus Magazine.
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