Rosamund Bartlett

Sep 8, 2024 | fivebooks.com | Jane Austen |Charlotte Brontë |Leo Tolstoy |Rosamund Bartlett

It is a truth universally acknowledged that even if you already own a copy of a book, you can still be tempted by a different edition when you see it in a bookstore.

Aug 22, 2024 | fivebooks.com | Leo Perutz |Leo Tolstoy |Rosamund Bartlett

Leo Tolstoy, the 19th century Russian novelist who wrote—among others—the books War and Peace and Anna Karenina, is generally considered one of the greatest novelists of all time. Born Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy in Tula, Russia, Leo Tolstoy first came to literary attention with the publication of a trilogy of autobiographical books (Childhood, Boyhood and Youth) while he was still in his twenties.

Jul 21, 2024 | apollo-magazine.com | Rosamund Bartlett

This review of The Avant-Gardists: Artists in Revolt in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union 1917–1935 by Sjeng Scheijen (Thames & Hudson) appears in the June 2024 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. One hallmark of early 20th-century European modernism was the number of artist couples engaged in creative partnerships: Kandinsky and Münter in Munich, the Delaunays in Paris, Goncharova and Larionov in Moscow.

Apr 27, 2023 | apollo-magazine.com | Rosamund Bartlett

From the May 2023 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. A good-natured spirit of competition has always characterised the relationship between Australia’s two largest cities, Sydney and Melbourne. In the case of their respective state art institutions, the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) in Melbourne has traditionally claimed pre-eminence by virtue of the size and quality of its collection and the earlier date of its foundation.

Feb 27, 2023 | apollo-magazine.com | Rosamund Bartlett

From the March 2023 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. In November 2022, 51 paintings, sketches and collages from the National Art Museum and the Museum of Theatre, Music and Cinema in Kyiv were loaded on to trucks in secret and despatched on a perilous five-day journey across Europe just before the capital was subjected to bombardment.