NA Meets: Øystein Ustvedt, Munch expert

24/09/20

NA Meets: Øystein Ustvedt, Munch expert

There is a small library of books on Edvard Munch, including several already written by the art critic, curator, and expert on the artist, Øystein Ustvedt. But his new publication, Edvard Munch: An Inner Life, is intended to offer a wide-reaching, all-encompassing introduction for the lay reader.

 

Ustvedt couldn’t be better qualified for the task. He is head of the Stenersen Museum, a curator at the National Museum in Oslo and has curated several exhibitions of Munch’s work. Ahead of the book’s publication, Norwegian Arts talked with Ustvedt about what this volume will offer that others do not, his personal views on the artist he has spent so much time researching, and how he would like to expand his horizons in the future.

Read the full interview here

Book review of Firecrackers: Female Photographers Now

30/11/17

Book review of Firecrackers: Female Photographers Now

By Fiona Rogers & Max Houghton

Published by Thames & Hudson

There has been no shortage of books on female photographers appearing over recent months, so what does this compendium, published by Thames & Hudson this autumn, add to the library that its predecessors haven’t already provided? Certainly many of the artists included have been represented elsewhere, and some of the images are beginning to feel a little overly familiar – but, in a world where Helmut Newton’s vampy erotica or Robert Doisneau’s iconic Le Baiser de l’Hôtel de Ville (1950) are recognisable in the flash of an eye, why shouldn’t Juno Calypso’s saccharine pink Honeymoon series nymphets (2015-16) and Natasha Caruana’s faceless brides (Fairytale for Sale series, 2011) be just as familiar and ubiquitous?

Read the full review here

Book Reviews: Louise Bourgeois and two primers on Contemporary Art

16/12/15

Book Reviews

Contemporary Art in the United Kingdom (Black Dog Publishing)

Book Review: Art & Visual Culture: A Reader (Tate Publishing)

Book Review: Mumbling Beauty: Louise Bourgeois, ed Alex van Gelder

Published in issue 19 (winter 2015/16) of F22 magazine

Book Review: Jackson Pollock’s Mural. Energy Made Visible

28/09/15

Jackson Pollock’s Mural. Energy Made Visible

David Anfam

Thames & Hudson  

Published in issue 18 (autumn 2015) of StateF22