ART
May 2013
George Catlin both recorded and idealised the vanquished native Indian tribes of North America
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April 2013
Where Edward Hopper found isolation, George Bellows heard the hubbub of modern America
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March 2013
Roy Lichtenstein based his work on comic strips but his approach to painting was intellectual
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January/February 2013
Edouard Manet’s virtuosity in painting the human form is unsurpassed—and highly original
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Written each month by Standpoint's resident art critic, Michael Prodger
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