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Alison Smith (curator)
Alison Smith is chief curator at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Selected publications *With Tim Barringer and Jason Rosenfeld, ''Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde'', exhibition catalogue, Tate Britain, London 2012, 256pp. *''Watercolour'', exhibition catalogue, Tate Britain, London 2011, 192pp. *''Symbolism in Poland and Britain'', exhibition catalogue, Tate Britain, London 2009, 40pp. *With Jason Rosenfeld, ''Millais'', exhibition catalogue, Tate Britain, London 2007, 272pp. *''The Enfranchised Eye'', in Alison Smith, Allen Staley and Christopher Newall (eds.), ''Pre-Raphaelite Landscape: Truth to Nature'', exhibition catalogue, Tate Britain, London 2004, pp. 11–24. *''G.F. Watts and the National Gallery of British Art'', in Colin Trodd and Stephanie Brown (eds.), ''Representations of G.F. Watts: Art Making in Victorian culture, Victorian Culture'', Farnham 2004, pp. 153–68. *''Exposed: The Victorian Nude'', exhibition catalogue, Tate Britain, London 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curator
A curator (from la, cura, meaning "to take care") is a manager or overseer. When working with cultural organizations, a curator is typically a "collections curator" or an "exhibitions curator", and has multifaceted tasks dependent on the particular institution and its mission. In recent years the role of curator has evolved alongside the changing role of museums, and the term "curator" may designate the head of any given division. More recently, new kinds of curators have started to emerge: "community curators", "literary curators", " digital curators" and " biocurators". Collections curator A "collections curator", a "museum curator" or a "keeper" of a cultural heritage institution (e.g., gallery, museum, library or archive) is a content specialist charged with an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material including historical artifacts. A collections curator's concern necessarily involves tangible objects of some sort—artwork, c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Portrait Gallery, London
The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is an art gallery in London housing a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people. It was arguably the first national public gallery dedicated to portraits in the world when it opened in 1856. The gallery moved in 1896 to its current site at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar Square, and adjoining the National Gallery (London), National Gallery. It has been expanded twice since then. The National Portrait Gallery also has regional outposts at Beningbrough Hall in Yorkshire and Montacute House in Somerset. It is unconnected to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, with which its remit overlaps. The gallery is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. Collection The gallery houses portraits of historically important and famous British people, selected on the basis of the significance of the sitter, not that of the artist. The collection includes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Barringer
Tim Barringer is the Paul Mellon professor of the history of art at Yale University. Selected publications *''Opulence and Anxiety: Landscape Paintings from the Royal Academy''. Kineton, Warwickshire: Compton Verney, 2007. *''Men at Work: Art and Labour in Victorian Britain''. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.Winner of the Historians of British Art book prize, best book on British art after 1800, 2007. *''Art and the British Empire''. Manchester: Manchester University Press Manchester University Press is the university press of the University of Manchester, England and a publisher of academic books and journals. Manchester University Press has developed into an international publisher. It maintains its links with th ..., 2007. (edited with Geoff Quilley and Douglas Fordham) *''Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds''. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. (Edited with Gillian Forrester and Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz) *"Sonic Spectacles of Empire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exhibition Catalogue
There are two types of exhibition catalogue (or exhibition catalog): a printed list of exhibits at an art exhibition; and a directory of exhibitors at a trade fair or business-to-business event. Art or museum exhibition catalogues Catalogues for art or museum exhibitions may range in scale from a single printed sheet to a lavish hardcover "coffee table book". The advent of cheap colour-printing in the 1960s transformed what had usually been simple "handlists" with several works to each page into large scale "descriptive catalogues" that are intended as both contributions to scholarship and books likely to appeal to many general readers. The catalogues for exhibitions held at a museum are now often far more detailed than the catalogues of their permanent collections. In the early 21st century, exhibitions that gather items from other institutions (museums, galleries, libraries, etc.) and that are elaborately publicized very often have catalogues in the form of substantial books ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Gallery Of British Art
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Victorian Culture
In the history of the United Kingdom and the British Empire, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. The era followed the Georgian era, Georgian period and preceded the Edwardian era, Edwardian period, and its later half overlaps with the first part of the ''Belle Époque'' era of Continental Europe. There was a strong religious drive for higher moral standards led by the Nonconformist (Protestantism), nonconformist churches, such as the Methodists and the evangelical Anglicanism, evangelical wing of the established Church of England. Ideologically, the Victorian era witnessed resistance to the rationalism that defined the Georgian period, and an increasing turn towards romanticism and even mysticism in religion, social values, and arts. This era saw a staggering amount of technological innovations that proved key to Britain's power and prosperity. Doctors started moving away from tradition and mysti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Art
The Art of the United Kingdom refers to all forms of visual art in or associated with the United Kingdom since the formation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707 and encompasses English art, Scottish art, Welsh art and Irish art, and forms part of Western art history. During the 18th century, Britain began to reclaim the leading place England had previously played in European art during the Middle Ages, being especially strong in portraiture and landscape art. Increased British prosperity at the time led to a greatly increased production of both fine art and the decorative arts, the latter often being exported. The Romanticism, Romantic period resulted from very diverse talents, including the painters William Blake, J. M. W. Turner, John Constable and Samuel Palmer. The Victorian period saw a great diversity of art, and a far bigger quantity created than before. Much Victorian art is now out of critical favour, with interest concentrated on the Pre-Raphaelites and the in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People Associated With The Tate Galleries
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Living People
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Year Of Birth Missing (living People)
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