Issue 5 / Autumn 2005
Content:
- Editors' Note
- David Rimanelli on the history of the body
- Richard MacCormac on Anthony Caro
- Max Andrews on Roman Ondák
- Jad Adams on Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec
- Barry Humphries on Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec
- Daniel Baumann on Martin Kippenberger
- Simon Grant on Roger Fenton
- Mark Webber on Morgan Fisher
- Dalwood and Ireson on Henri Rousseau
- Kathleen Jamie's poem on Henri Rousseau
- Nicholas Blincoe on the Body
- Richard Hamblyn on Clouds
- A C Grayling on Sarah Lucas
- Hans Ulrich Obrist on The Museum
- Paul Moorhouse on John Latham
- Brian Dillon on Tacita Dean
- MicroTate
- Lawrence Norfolk in the Tate Archive
Jad Adams on Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec
‘What is there in absinthe that makes it a separate cult? Even in ruin and in degradation it remains a thing apart.’ The Green Goddess haunted a nation and fuelled its art, including that of Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec.
Poster for Absinthe Superieure, designed by Victor Leydet, c.1900
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Nicholas Blincoe on the Body
The body matters, more than at any other time in history. Where should a history of the body in art begin, asks Nicholas Blincoe.
A C Grayling on Sarah Lucas
![Sarah Lucas, Various works [uninstalled]](/images/cms/12738w_dscn2210.jpg)
Sarah Lucas explores sexual attitudes using hosiery, fried eggs, chicken and pork. A C Grayling looks at the meaning behind the touring retrospective at the Kunsthalle Zurich.