Tag: Pre-Raphaelites
Sydney Morning Herald Column
Love & Desire: Pre-Raphaelite Masterpieces from the Tate
Friday, February 8th, 2019 Sydney Morning Herald Column,Exhibition titles are of the same order of marketing as those advertisements that claim by signing up for some course you can make millions or learn to speak another language in two weeks. Naturally if you don’t succeed it’s always your own fault. So when we come across a show titled Love & Desire: Pre-Raphaelite […]
Sydney Morning Herald Column
Julia Margaret Cameron
Friday, September 25th, 2015 Sydney Morning Herald Column,Imagine photographs that “electrify you with delight and startle the world,” and one does not automatically think of Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-79). Nevertheless, she was the author of both the photographs and the rave review. Today we are more likely to be startled by Cameron’s brazen self-confidence than by her portraits and ‘literary’ fancies. The […]