Julian Bell is a painter and writer living in Lewes, England. He is the author of What Is Painting? and Mirror of the World: A New History of Art. (June 2013)
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The Angel of the Bizarre
June 6, 2013
The Angel of the Odd: Dark Romanticism from Goya to Max Ernst
an exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, March 5–June 9, 2013
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The Dreamers
November 22, 2012
Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde
an exhibition at Tate Britain, London, September 12, 2012–January 13, 2013; the National Gallery, Washington, D.C., February 17–May 19, 2013; and the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, June 10–September 30, 2013.
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‘Brimming with Sheer Cheek’
May 24, 2012
Damien Hirst an exhibition at Tate Modern, London, April 4–September 9, 2012
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Some Like It Hot
March 8, 2012
A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers
by Michael Holroyd
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The Mysterious Women of Vermeer
December 22, 2011
Vermeer’s Women: Secrets and Silence
an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England, October 5, 2011–January 15, 2012
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Manet: ‘Sudden Sensuous Dazzle’
July 14, 2011
Manet: Inventeur du Moderne [Manet: The Man Who Invented Modernity]
an exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, April 5–July 3, 2011
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Dreams from Underground
June 9, 2011
Cave of Forgotten Dreams a film directed by Werner Herzog
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The Fantastical Neoclassical
April 7, 2011
L’Antiquité rêvée: innovations et résistances au XVIIIe siècle an exhibition at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, December 2, 2010–February 14, 2011, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 20–May 30, 2011.
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‘A Rapturous Spooky Dream’
August 19, 2010
Richard Hamilton
edited by Hal Foster with Alex Bacon
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The Elegant Optimist
October 22, 2009
Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love
by Sheila Rowbotham
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Why Art?
October 8, 2009
Art Without Borders: A Philosophical Exploration of Art and Humanity
by Ben-Ami Scharfstein
The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution
by Denis Dutton
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The Pleasure of Watteau
February 12, 2009
Antoine’s Alphabet: Watteau and His World
by Jed Perl
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Back to Basics
October 23, 2008
The Craftsman
by Richard Sennett
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The Way to All Flesh
March 6, 2008
Lucian Freud
by William Feaver
Freud at Work: Lucian Freud in Conversation with Sebastian Smee
by Bruce Bernard and David Dawson
Lucian Freud: The Painter’s Etchings
an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, December 16, 2007–March 10, 2008.
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The Golden Age at Its Best
October 11, 2007
Dutch Portraits: The Age of Rembrandt and Frans Hals
Catalog of the exhibition by Rudi Ekkart and Quentin Buvelot
The Rembrandt Book
by Gary Schwartz
Rembrandt’s Nose: Of Flesh and Spirit in the Master’s Portraits
by Michael Taylor
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The Cunning of Francis Bacon
May 10, 2007
Francis Bacon in the 1950s
catalog of the exhibition by Michael Peppiatt
Francis Bacon’s Studio
by Margarita Cappock
Francis Bacon: Commitment and Conflict
by Wieland Schmied
Interviews with Francis Bacon
by David Sylvester
Francis Bacon: The Violence of the Real catalog of the 2006 Düsseldorf exhibition edited by Armin Zweite, with Maria Müller
In Camera: Francis Bacon: Photography, Film and the Practice of Painting
by Martin Harrison
Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma
by Michael Peppiatt
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British Art: The Showcase
October 19, 2006
School of Genius: A History of the Royal Academy of Arts
by James Fenton
Candidates for Fame: The Society of Artists of Great Britain, 1760–1791
by Matthew Hargraves
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Werner Herzog and the World's Oldest Paintings
May 4, 2011
Cave of Forgotten Dreams, a new documentary by Werner Herzog, is a striking and characterful work of art, framing another that is wholly extraordinary.