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Hokusai's Great Wave is the enduring image of Japanese art. Less well known is the story of its primary pigment - Prussian blue - which was created in a lab accident in Berlin and sparked 'blue fever' in Europe.
How has Malcolm Lowry's novel stood the test of time?
His rise was just as swift as his fall. To mark the painter's 100th birthday, an art historian explores the forces – cultural, political and personal – that created a polarizing legacy.
Without protection, Iran's spectacular American- and Italian-designed mid-century structures will be reduced to dust, beams and concrete blocks.
The tale of a married woman who joins her lover in Paris, The Beauties and Furies is a modernist classic. Like Joyce's Ulysses, the action is concentrated in one city, but dreams are nightmarish in this city of night, not light.
The humble shipping container is sparking a revolution in architecture, plug and play infrastructure, portable labs and many other innovations.
There is a growing trend of designing modernised replicas of traditional buildings for entertainment and tourism. That’s no way to salvage positive lessons from building traditions.
Slated to be demolished this year, a crumbling brick building on Ole Miss' campus once operated as a power plant where novelist William Faulkner shoveled coal – and feverishly wrote.
The alternate reality visualised in Star Wars is now potentially much closer to home.
Marlon James’s book is a whirlwind of different voices ostensibly about the infamous failed assassination of Bob Marley in 1976.
A new BBC drama follows the life and loves of Vanessa Bell, sister of Virginia Woolf and centre of the famous Bloomsbury group.
From his line of Target homeware to his one-of-a-kind buildings, Michael Graves was inspired by the basic needs of everyday people.
In 1919, Ivy MacKusick, an art student at UCL’s Slade School of Fine Art, completed a Portrait of a Man in His Shirtsleeves. We know nothing about the man of African descent depicted in this portrait…
There’s a problem with the history of western art: we face it from the wrong side of decades of discursive dismantling. The conventional “story” of early 20th-century modernism, in which an advanced guard…
One of the biggest international art fairs is back. And London’s Frieze isn’t just about selling contemporary art, it’s an annual exhibition that defines and showcases the international art scene of today…
When most people think of Brisbane architecture, they usually picture a Queenslander: high-set, timber-and-corrugated iron houses that are ideally suited to subtropical conditions. Modernism fits into…
The gorgeous, ethereal photographic portrait shot of Virginia Woolf taken in 1902 by George Beresford has become the iconic image of her, ubiquitous on mugs, mouse-mats and tea-towels. This image certainly…
For you. You’ll soon. You’ll give her name. In the stitches of her skin she’ll wear your say. The foundational challenge of Eimear McBride’s novel is plainly visible in its opening lines, above: the incomplete…
I first came across modernism through the lens of postmodernism in the early 1980s. At that time postmodernism – explained here – was washing through the academy, promising to transform everything by placing…
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Professor, Head of Visual Arts, Queensland University of Technology
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Reader in Historical Geography, UCL
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Professor of Art History, Newcastle University
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Post Doctoral Research Fellow, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer, Department of English, University of Sydney
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Lecturer in English Literature, University of Glasgow
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Adjunct Faculty, History and Philosophy of Science and Department of Management and Marketing, University of Melbourne
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Research Student, Modernist Literature and Culture, King's College London
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Senior Lecturer Art Theory, Monash University
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Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History, Case Western Reserve University
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Head of Film and Media, University of Bradford
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Assistant Professor of Interior Architecture and Design, George Washington University
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Kevin D. Murphy est un·e ami·e de The Conversation
Andrew W. Mellon Chair in the Humanities and Professor and Chair of History of Art, Vanderbilt University
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Senior Lecturer in Design, Culture and Context, Nottingham Trent University
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Deputy Director for Creative Writing, University of Nottingham
