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Julian Bell

Julian Bell is the author of Mirror of the World: A New History of Art, which came out last month.

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In the LRB archive

Bon Viveur in Cuban Heels · 3 January 2008

  • A Life of Picasso, Vol. III: The Triumphant Years 1917-32 by John Richardson  Buy this book

subscriber-only content At Tate Britain: Julian Bell on John Everett Millais · 15 November 2007

subscriber-only content Eye Candy · 19 July 2007

subscriber-only content I’m not upset. It’s nerves · 23 February 2006

  • Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse Vol. II The Conquest of Colour 1909-54 by Hilary Spurling  Buy this book

subscriber-only content I do like painting · 2 December 2004

subscriber-only content Into the Southern Playground · 21 August 2003

  • 'The Quattro Cento’ and ‘Stones of Rimini’ by Adrian Stokes
  • Art and Its Discontents by Richard Read

subscriber-only content Eyeballs v. Optics · 13 December 2001

  • Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters by David Hockney

So South Kensington · 20 September 2001

  • The Complete Writings on Art by Walter Sickert, edited by Anna Gruetzner Robins

subscriber-only content Get out · 19 October 2000

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive Unreal Food Uneaten · 13 April 2000

  • The Art of Bloomsbury edited by Richard Shone
  • First Friends by Ronald Blythe
  • Bloomsbury in France by Mary Ann Caws and Sarah Bird Wright

 not available in archive ‘What are you doing staring at that fake from Aix?’ · 15 July 1999

  • Rembrandt by Himself edited by Christopher White and Quentin Buvelot
  • Rembrandt : The Painter at Work by Ernst van de Wetering

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