To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
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WILL PODMORE recommends a readable introduction to the life of Byron, in his own words
Byron by Thomas Phillips, 1813
[Public Domain]
If you can see past the relentless commodification you will be rewarded by enormously powerful work, suggests JENNY MITCHELL
CHRIS SEARLE revels in the one-off collaboration between an American polymath and a British Muslim, and detects the presence of their revolutionary forebear
GORDON PARSONS revels in an ebullient production of Shakespeare’s magical comedy
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a thoughtful analysis of the Erdogan regime, viewed through the evolving history of a neighbourhood in Istanbul
GORDON PARSONS regrets the price, but is dazzled by an outstandingly ambitious study of the way art restoration in particular, and culture in general was weaponised by the Nazis
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters
Andrew Stauffer
Cambridge University Press, £25
THIS is a fine introduction to the great poet, which should stimulate the reader to read or reread the poems. Its author, Professor Andrew Stauffer, is chair of the Department of English at the University of Virginia, and president of the Byron Society of America.
It is not a full biography; for this, one should turn to Leslie Marchand’s Byron: a biography or to Fiona MacCarthy’s more recent Byron: life and legend.
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