File 16 - A New Beauty?

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CJA-RES-AL-B20-3-16

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A New Beauty?

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  • 1999-2002 (Creation)

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1 folder; paper

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Contents of a folder labelled from the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg labelled by Charles 'a new beauty?'

Includes:
-Press release and transparencies for the Jackson Pollock exhibition at the Tate Gallery 1999
-photocopies from 'They Have A Word for It' by Howard Rheingold chapter 4 'The Eye of the Beholder: conceptions of Beauty'
-press cutting on the 7 year itch with an image of Marilyn Monroe [2001]
-rejection letter from Thames & Hudson for an unnamed book proposal [1999]
-photocopy from an article in the San Francisco Chronicle on brain synapses [1999]
-manuscript fax from Charles to Adrian Hamilton at the Independent enclosing 12 pages [not enclosed]
-fax from The Independent regarding Charles' article on Beauty [1999]
-manuscript notes headed 'New Paradigms'
-leaflet for an event held at the [Architectural Association] titled Paradigm Shifts featuring Charles
-article titled 'Keeping An Eye on Nature' by Professor David Cooper
-typescript text by Charles titled 'A Different Theory of Beauty'
-manuscript notes on Harvard Club of New York City headed paper
-itinerary in Bologna and Venice
-review by Paul Mattick of Wendy Steiner's 'Venus in Exile'.
-article by Charles titled 'Our modern age requires a new definition of beauty' from The Independent [1999]
--typescript text by Charles titled 'A Different Theory of Beauty' with manuscript notes in a different hand
-review by Hal Foster of 'Nobrow' by John Seabrook [2000]
-review by Kendall L Walton of the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics [2000]
-article by Miles Under titled 'Finding Art in Random Images Is as old as Art Itself' [2000]
-bundle of photocopies newspaper articles with annotations
-three sheets of slides, one with a covering note from the Royal Academy of Arts
-postcards of work by Franz X. Messerschmidt
-article by Mark Henderson titled 'brightly coloured beaks are the key to birds sex appeal'
-typescript by Charles titled 'EP Phone Home or What a Pleasure to Meet Mr Darwin' [18 pages]
-photocopies of the cover pages for 'Music, the Brain and ecstasy' by Robert Jourdan
-manuscript notes headed '8,500 words: Louisa's comments'.
-dust cover for Wendy Steiner's 'The Trouble With Beauty'
-postcard of the hall at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien
-reviews of Geoffrey Miller's 'The Mating Mind' [2000]
-article by Daniel McNeill titled 'The hidden face of beauty' [1999]
-manuscript draft guestlist for a proposed Portrack seminar on Beauty, to be held 2002/2003
-colour transparency marked for publication in The Jumping Universe
-article by Massimilano Finazzer Flory titled 'Beauty - not a context, but a need and an opportunity'
-review by Marina Warner or Wendy Steiner's 'The Trouble with Beauty' [2002]
-article by Michael Prowse titled 'Let's clip the tails of the peacocks that strut around the boardroom'
-still from Barbarella
-postcard of Jake & Dinos Chapman's Hell
-review of Hugh Pearman of the British Museum's 'Defining Beauty' exhibition
-postcards of the Venus von Willendorf from the Naturhistorische Museum Wien and Arcimboldo works from the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
-invitation to the launch of Wendy Steiners 'The Trouble with Beauty'
-article by Jackie Wullschlager titled 'Beauty in the labyrinth' [2000]
-page from the New Scientist with reviews of multiple books.

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