Julian Bell

Julian Bell, a painter, is also the author of Mirror of the World: A New History of Art.

In the LRB Archive:

• At the Royal Academy: Manet · 21 February 2013

• At the National Gallery · 3 January 2013

• In Margate: Alex Katz · 8 November 2012

• Don’t look: Perspective’s Arab Origins · 25 October 2012

  • Florence and Baghdad: Renaissance Art and Arab Science by Hans Belting, translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider

• At Tate Modern: Edvard Munch · 30 August 2012

• The Irish Savant’s Problem: Diderot on Blindness · 21 June 2012

  • Blindness and Enlightenment: An Essay by Kate Tunstall

• At Tate Britain: ‘Migrations’ · 8 March 2012

• At the Whitechapel: Wilhelm Sasnal · 5 January 2012

• At the Ashmolean: Claude Lorrain · 1 December 2011

• Bourgeois Reveries: Farmer Eliot · 3 February 2011

  • Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper by Alexandra Harris

• Make Something Happen!: Paint Serious, Paint Big · 2 December 2010

  • Salvator Rosa: Bandits, Wilderness and Magic by Helen Langdon, Xavier Salomon and Caterina Volpi
  • Painting for Profit: The Economic Lives of 17th-Century Italian Painters by Richard Spear and Philip Sohm et al
  • Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane by Andrew Graham-Dixon
  • The Moment of Caravaggio by Michael Fried

• The Atheists’ Picnic: Art and Its Origins · 10 June 2010

  • Conceiving God: The Cognitive Origin and Evolution of Religion by David Lewis-Williams

• For Those Who Don’t Know: Van Gogh’s Letters · 5 November 2009

  • Vincent van Gogh: The Letters edited by Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten and Nienke Bakker, translated by Michael Hoyle et al

• Look Me in the Eye: Art and the Brain · 8 October 2009

  • Splendours and Miseries of the Brain: Love, Creativity and the Quest for Human Happiness by Semir Zeki
  • Neuroarthistory: From Aristotle and Pliny to Baxandall and Zeki by John Onians
  • Echo Objects: The Cognitive Work of Images by Barbara Maria Stafford

• Bon Viveur in Cuban Heels: Picasso · 3 January 2008

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

• At Tate Britain: John Everett Millais · 15 November 2007

• Eye Candy: Colour · 19 July 2007

  • Colour in Art by John Gage

• I’m not upset. It’s nerves: Spurling’s Matisse · 23 February 2006

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

• I do like painting: The life and art of William Coldstream · 2 December 2004

  • William Coldstream by Bruce Laughton

• Into the Southern Playground: The Suspect Adrian Stokes · 21 August 2003

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

• Eyeballs v. Optics: Western art · 13 December 2001

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

• So South Kensington: Walter Sickert · 20 September 2001

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

• Get out: Francis Bacon · 19 October 2000

  • Looking back at Francis Bacon by David Sylvester

• Unreal Food Uneaten: Sitting for Vanessa · 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

• ‘What are you doing staring at that fake from Aix?’: Rembrandt · 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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