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When past is present: Barbary Coast revisited
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JEFFREY GETTLEMAN The New York Times
International Herald Tribune
04-13-2009
When past is present: Barbary Coast revisited
Byline: JEFFREY GETTLEMAN The New York Times
Edition: 4
Section: NEWS
NAIROBI: --
An American skipper kidnapped by seafaring rogues. Some of the world's busiest shipping lanes under attack. Tough men from a messy patch of Africa eluding and harassing the world's greatest powers.
Sound familiar? It is not the drama that began unfolding last week on the high seas off Somalia, when pirates boarded an American freighter in the Indian Ocean and took its captain hostage, then ...
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A Blot: Tigers (c.1770-80) ; GREAT WORKS ++ Alexander Cozens ++ Tate Britain
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...In 1785, the English artist Alexander Cozens published a book called A New Method...of Landscape. His new method, Cozens promised, will enable you to devise...Bingo: an original landscape. Cozens was aware that Leonardo had recommended...
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"The greatest genius that ever touched landscape": John Robert Cozens and English watercolor.(Cover story)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques
; ...were all indebted to Cozens. Yet while their names are revered today, Cozens's remains little known...OMITTED] We know little about Cozens's life aside from the most...to paint by his father, Alexander, and made a formative trip...
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The great age of British watercolours 1750-1880. (exhibit at the Tate Gallery)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review
; ...scenes. In the latter field, Alexander Cozens was the great innovator. His experiments...Turner fifty years later, although Cozens's use of colour is merely an...was very different from that of Cozens, developed as it was through Sandby...
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Wordsworth exhibit revives Romanticism
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...Blake. To the ridicule of many, Alexander Cozens developed a revolutionary means...direct observation of reality, Cozens introduced the element of chance...works. This method was followed by Cozens' son (who, true to Romantic...
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Emotions of change sweep Brit creativity; Natural, mystical a romantic divide.(ARTS & CULTURE)(ART)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...among them Palmer, J.M.W. Turner and Alexander Cozens and his son John Robert Cozens. Rebelling against the artists of the academy before them, Alexander Cozens depicted nature through inkblots, while his...
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Spooning with drawings: William Spooner bought English watercolours and drawings in a golden age of collecting, but, as an exhibition at Somerset House, London, reveals, he played disappointingly safe.
Magazine article from: Apollo
; ...example the city from Greenwich by Cozens and a drawing given to John Varley...David Cox. Spooner clearly admired Cozens, Cotman and Towne, all of whom...one question their quality. The Alexander Cozens, the Dayes of Somerset House...
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Review: The Arts: The good, the bad and the truly terrible Art
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...professional drawing masters - men such as Paul Sandby and Alexander Cozens tend to look a little down in the mouth (and being...example - a more extraordinary example of one of Alexander Cozens's abstract "blots" for instance, from which...
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A very British medium
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...these include John Constable, John Sell Cotman, Alexander and John Robert Cozens, Peter De Wint, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas...publishing their own theories and drawing manuals: Alexander Cozens developed a blot technique to kickstart ideas...
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Serious delights
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...which would explain why he bought none of the bold linearities of Francis Towne, but not why Alexander Cozens (father of John Robert Cozens, exhibited here), that master of the dramatic 'Blot' landscape, is missing from this display...
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A vision sustained: the British Museum's Samuel Palmer exhibition triumphantly dispels the myth that his inspiration waned as he grew older.
Magazine article from: Apollo
; ...powerful feeling in landscape: some of Palmer's 'blacks', as he called them, recall Alexander Cozens's sepia landscapes using the "blot' technique. Cozens gets no mention in Palmer's voluble and informative letters, and scholars have not...
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