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.
-typescript draft guestlist for a proposed Portrack symposium on Beauty to be held May 2003
-article titled 'Romping all over the world' by David Aaronovitch [2003]
-article titled 'Olympic physique' by Mary Beard [2004]
-annotated typescript titled 'Guide to Old Beauty' a review of John Armstrong's 'The Secret Power of Beauty'
-article by Susie Linfield titled 'Camera Lucida' reviewing 'Women' by Annie Leibowitz and Susan Sontag and 'On Beauty and Being Just' by Elaine Scarry [1999]
-review by Stuart Hampshire of 'On Beauty and Being Just' by Elaine Scarry
-review by Rachel Campbell-Johnston of John Currin at the Serpentine Gallery [2003]
-photocopied article by Roger Highfield sent to Charles with a covering note by [illegible] [2001]
-review by Lucy Hughes-Hallett of 'Cleopatra of Egypt' at the British Museum and the accompanying catalogue by Susan Walker and Peter Higgs [2001]
-article by Ros Miles titled 'Sexy women? Your eyes deceive you' [1998]
-article by Nancy Etcoff titled 'Survival of the prettiest' [1999]
-article by Richard Owen titled 'Art lovers practise the art of love' [2001]
-programme for the Royal Academy Forum 'Challenging Beauty' featuring Charles, Will Alsop, Mark Cousins and Wendy Steiner, annotated with Charles' manuscript notes
-invitation to a Graduate Student Symposium titled 'The Power of Beauty' at Yale Center for British Art [2008]
-review by Joanna Pitman of a Leni Riefenstahl exhibition at Atlas Gallery, London [2004]
-article by Stephen Bayley titled 'She walks in beauty' [2004]
-article by Lewis Smith titled 'What a waist - why all men have had one vision of the ideal woman' [2007]
-news page from New Scientist magazine [2007]
-article by Laura Spinney titled 'Blind to Change' [2000]
-article by Edwin Heathcote titled 'The bad and the beautiful '[2013]
-article by Simon Wilson titled 'Naked Ambition' [2004]
-article by Mark Henderson titled 'Amazing maths of the mosaic makers' [2007]
-review by Rachel Campbell-Johnston of the 'Beyond Measure' exhibition at Kettle's Yard
-obituary of Jean Baudrillard from The Times [2007]
-review by Alison Lurie titled 'When is a Building Beautiful' of books by Alain de Botton and Deborah Cohen [2007]
-exhibition listings with 'Eternal Woman: The female form in Antiquity' circled [2005]
-article by Philip Howard tutled 'Ara Kallipygos eimi' [2006]
-article by Alain de Botton titled 'Beauty and the beasts'
-photocopy of Charles' entry in the Dictionary of Cultural Theorists with corrections, and a letter from Rob Stone responding
-press release for and invitation to the Neuroaesthetics conference at Goldsmiths College [2006]
-press release for Artbrain.org 3
-correspondence [letters and printed out e-mails] between Charles and various correspondents including David Griffin, Charlene Spretnak, Michael Zimmerman, Linda Hutcheon
-typescript list of Portrack seminars 1992-1998 and their participants
-review by Charles of John Armstrong's The Secret Power of Beauty titled 'Beauty's comeback' [2004]
-article by Mark Henderson titled 'Experts figure out why men prefer Marilyn' [2004]
-news articles from the New Scientist [2008]
-article by Jason Cowley titled 'And the winner is?' [2006]
-article by Steve Yates titled 'The sound of capitalism' [2011]