Beatrice Bazell (Birkbeck College, University of London) Figure One: John Everett Millais,The Blind Girl (1856) My mother stood in front of Millais’ The Blind Girl and marvelled: ‘You think you know these paintings, but actually you don’t.’ This will always be the major stumbling block, as well as the major strength of any exhibition of Pre-Raphaelite work: in being so familiar with these beautiful, fascinating works we risk thinking of them as kitsch souvenirs of a bygone age, when in
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Eadweard Muybridge at Tate Britain
Exhibition of photographer Eadweard Muybridge, pioneer of the moving image Tate Britain 8 September 2010 – 16 January 2011 Find out about Muybridge in Kingston here Post a review for one or both exhibitions for JVC Online
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‘Romantics’ is showing at Tate Britain 9 August 2010 – 31 December 2012 Post a review of the exhibition
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