Exhibitionist

100 sumptuously produced essays by Britain's leading art critic, US born, Richard Dorment. They cover exhibitions of historic and contemporary art world-wide, interpreting and critiquing many of the most important shows of the last 30 years. They offer, in a highly accessible form, the fundamental elements of a history of art, and a beguiling review of recent cultural trends.



Richard Dorment was born in the US and studied at Princeton and Columbia before joining the staff at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In 1986 he became the chief art critic of The Daily Telegraph in London, and in 1992 he won the Hawthornden Prize for Art Criticism. In 2000 he was named ‘Critic of the Year' in the British Press awards, and in 2014 he won the Holland Prize for his review of the re-opened Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. He was awarded the CBE in 2014 for his services to the arts. He retired in 2015.



He has written several exhibition and museum collection catalogs, and academic books, but this is the first collection of his reviews to be published.



PARTIAL TOC:


1.Ancient and Non-European Art


Ice Age Art


The Painted Tomb-Chapel of Nebamun


Egypt's Dazzling Sun


Kingdom of Ife: Sculptures from West Africa


Aztecs


The Padshahnama


2.European Art before 1800


Pieter Bruegel the Elder


Caravaggio: the Final Years


Johannes Vermeer


Jean-Baptiste


Siméon Chardin


Goya's Portrait of the Condesa de Chinchón


Citizens and Kings: Portraits in the Age of Revolution, 1760–1830


3. British Art before 1800


Alexander Pope


François Roubiliac and the Portrait


William Hogarth


Thomas Gainsborough


Vases and Volcanoes


Thomas Jones


Art On the Line


Swagger Portraits


4.Nineteenth-Century Europe and America


Fierce Friends: Artists and Animals 1750–1900


Light!


Jean-Baptiste Camille


Corot


Christen Købke


American Sublime


Manet and the Sea


Manet's Luncheon


Winslow Homer


Cézanne: The Card Players


Renoir at the Theatre


Henri Rousseau


Thomas Eakins


Gustave Caillebotte


Vincent Van Gogh


John Singer Sargent


Georges Seurat


Impressionism: Painting Quickly in France 1860–1890


Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec


Vilhelm Hammershøi Symbolist


Landscape 1900: Art at the Crossroads


5.Nineteenth-Century Britain


Thomas Lawrence


Turner and the Sea


Turner's Fighting Temeraire


Late Turner


John Constable


Edwin Landseer


William Bell


Scott Edward Burne-


Jones Frank Holl


Fairy Paintings


Aubrey Beardsley


The Aesthetic Movement


The Age of Enchantment


6. Photography


La Divine Comtesse


Eadweard Muybridge


Julia Margaret Cameron


7.Twentieth-Century Europe


Matisse


Matisse


Picasso


Matisse: the Cut-Outs


Mondrian: Nature to Abstraction


The Stein Family


Picasso: the Early Years


Georges Braque


Joan Miró


René Magritte


7.Twentieth-Century America


American Art in the 20th Century


Alexander Calder


George Bellows


Arshile Gorky


Jackson Pollock


8. Post-War America


Roy Lichtenstein


Cy Twombly


The Warhol Look: Glamour, Style, Fashion


Andy Warhol: Outer and Inner Space


Jasper Johns


Brice Marden


Richard Serra


Susan Hiller


Bruce Naumann


Fluxus


9. Twentieth-Century Britain


Algernon Newton


The Sitwells


Stanley Spencer


Herbert Read


Douglas Cooper


The Art that Dare Not Speak its Name


Picasso and Modern British Art


Neo-Romantics


10. Post-War and Contemporary International


Modern Art


On Kawara


Eva Hesse Bas


Jan Ader


Jeff Wall


Gary Hill


Francesco Clemente [Sophie Calle]


Felix Gonzales-Torres


Matthew Barney (Il Tempo del Postino)


Olafur Eliasson


Francis Alÿs


11.Post-War and Contemporary Britain


David Hockney


Gilbert and George


Andy Goldsworthy


Mark Wallinger


Tracey Emin


Marcus Coates


12. Art Politics


Tate Modern


William Hogarth's Sigismunda


The Lure of the East


Thomas Gainsborough


British Iconoclasm


Renaissance


The Elgin Marbles


Closer Examination: Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries