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Cv/VAR reviews Marina Abramovi¿ , Anselm Kiefer and John Latham, exploring the emergence of conceptual and performance works of the 1970s, new approaches to a dematerialised art art that moved beyond the consumer-based culture of previous decades. Marina Abramovic, a poweful voice in this arena, is represented in a major exhibition staged throughout the Royal Academy of Art London. Hr videos, sculptures and installations are experienced in a r...

Studies made between 2010 and 2020 in group work and studio compositions, developing drawings and watercolours to small scale panel paintings, and the large composition of 2021, Gods and Goddesses: six canvases 54"x48" forming two triptychs of twelve feet span.1 Attending life classes each week studies of professional models, actresses and dancers, are made in watercolour, oil and charcoal pencil. About fifteen sketches are made each session, ...

Despite his short span of activity, from 1423 to 1428, Masaccio can be posited as the signifier of a radical break with the period of Italian painting known as the Trecento, and alone among his contemporaries, in his use of dramatic realism, points the way to the spectacular creations of the High Renaissance, in which artists such as Michelangelo, Raphael and Palladio, achieved a fusion of classic and humanist ideals in painting, sculpture and...

An interview recorded at 'The Work of Angel' with Dr Michael Ryan of the National Museum Dublin, at the British Museum November 1989. The monograph is illustrated in colour with Celtic artefacts.

Documentary and fictions of daily experience, encounters and episodes: the streets, shoppers, external and internal worlds.

Cv/VAR 36 takes as its focus two paintings by Johannes Vermeer (1632-75): The Milkmaid c.1661-62 and Woman Holdinga Balance c.1662-65, and considers critical approaches to the artist by four historians Edward A.Snow, Lawrence Gowing, John Michael Montias, and Martin Pops. Its aim is not solely to describe Vermeer's art, but by a process of comparative analysis to discern the various standpoints of his biographers, and to clarify their methodol...

The sixth in Cv's series of English County Guides explores Wiltshire. The dramatic sweep of a spare landscape of the Pewsey Vale introduces the historic town of Marlborough. It follows routes towards the West, to Bath and Avon, taking in settlements of Chippenham, Calne, Melksham, , Devizes, Malmesbury and Bradford on Avon. Wiltshire is beautiful and mysterious, spanned by ancient lay lines and runic landmarks such as Stonehenge, The White Hor...

Documenting over one hundre centres the county gradually revealed itself as largely unspoilt by the industrial sprawl. Oxford itself is of course very lively and cosmopolitan, but communications and facilities are as good in the many market towns. I was really interested to note the range of properties both old and new and the particular character of an area. I hope that my guide provides details and insights that will assist your own enquirie...

Title compares the work of leading British sculptors Anthony Caro and Alison Wilding.

Small Histories is a collection of essays and reviews by Nicholas James, 1993-2011, on examples of Western art: The Trinity by Masaccio at Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Vermeer's The Maid and Woman Weighing Pearls, Velázquez court portraits, Cézanne and Salvador Dalí, Francis Bacon, Anthony Caro, Damien Hirst and Andy Warhol, with reviews of exhibitions in London's public and private galleries. A collection of over seventy pieces reveals stra...

Part one of the continuing series entitled Painted Histories indexes leading figures in two significant phases of poetic expression in English literature: the Elizabethans, including William Shakespeare, John Webster and Sir Philip Sidney to the Romantic movement of the earli 19th century: Lord Byron, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The volume includes bio-data and links for further research.

A survey of career paths in the catering industry with a supplement studying the effect of artificial intelligence on avenues of supply and distribution. With national coverage of the first edition in 1997 Tracks found an eager audience, including many parents needing to inform their children's choices for the future. Over fifteen annual editions the title has been revised and updated. The new edition carries several work descriptions per pa...

A guide to career paths in law, central and local government and administration. First published as Tracks: Plan of the Professions in 1997, the revised updated edition is published in 2024. It gives information for over150 professions, which include pathways in the banking and financial services, catering and hospitality, construction, education, health care, land and sea work, law, government and administration, leisure and tourism, manufac...

The growth and diversity of careers and career pathways within medicine and health care can be confusing, yet it reflects the evolution of modern medicine which relies upon a myriad of different specialists each able to contribute their own particular skills to the care and well being of the patient or client. Careers within the NHS are many and varied, with opportunities to train not only as nurses and doctors but also as dieticians, occupati...

With national coverage of the first edition in 1997 Tracks found an eager audience, including many parents needing to inform their children's choices for the future. Over fifteen annual editions the title has been revised and updated. The new edition carries several work descriptions per page, listing pay scales and qualifications to degree level, with advice from professionals in the field, and chartered institutes. The contact pages cross-re...

Pioneer of British conceptual art John Latham projects 1974-78.

Eminent childrens' book illustrator Fritz Wegner, born Vienna 15th September 1924, died London 15th March 2015. His early assignments included work in the 1940s for Lilliput Magazine, Dorothy L. Sayers and Enid Blyton, with book covers for Raymond Chandler The Long Goodbye' and the first UK edition of Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.In the late 1950s he moved away from advertising and commercial work to focus on childrens' literature. Reno...

The survey documents four leading artists, Lubaina Himid, Yinka Shonibare CBE, Hew Locke and the film maker Steve McQueen, exploring their work and ideas in development, in reviews and recorded conversations, drawn from Cv/Visual Arts Research Archive. Firstly a review of Lubaina Himid exhibition 'Nuance and Interpretation' at Tate Modern recorded 28th June 2022. Explores the artist's paintings, sculptures and sound environments in the broad r...

The volume documents media studies in Cv/VAR Archive nade between 1976 and 2025. Newsprint extracts make vignettes of popular subjects, celebrities, business, sports, beauty, cartoon characters. Over 300 drawings were made between 1981 and 1986 with further studies in 2003 and 2005. The volume includes 'Viewing and Listening', journal 1978-2022, photo-composites and drawings made as carbon trace collages. 'I began collecting the daily news in ...

A recorded visit to an exhibition by Anish Kapoor at the Lisson Gallery London continued to 22nd June 2019. Includes descriptions of works and bio-dara of the artist. An addendum features a visit to the artist's studio in Camberwell 2011 where he demonstrates works in progress for the Olympic National Park and Leviathan to be installed at Monumenta Paris. 'In the rear ground floor space of the Lisson Ggallery a suite of new paintings, complete...