Sentence examples for catalogue introduction from inspiring English sources

(Rothkopf's clear and coolly measured catalogue introduction must be read by any serious critic of Koons, pro or con).

The full text of Evelyn Waugh's spoof catalogue introduction is on display too for the first time.

"This exhibition tells one of the most compelling and rewarding stories in the entire history of art," the catalogue introduction by the art historian John Golding begins.

Dickerman, in the catalogue introduction, analyzes Duchamp's mordant take on the problem, which bedevilled early abstraction, of finding meaning in art that had no recognizable subjects.

· This is an edited extract from Dawn Ades and Fiona Bradley's catalogue introduction to the exhibition Undercover Surrealism: Picasso, Miró, Masson and the Vision of Georges Bataille, at the Hayward Gallery, London SE1, from Thursday until July 30.

Similarly, in his catalogue introduction for his American exhibition at the 1964 Venice Biennale, Solomon thanked his spon sors for allowing him to make "a personal statement" through the aegis of the ex hibition.

A new Hall emerged, evident in catalogue introductions and workshop discussions in galleries in Britain and across Europe.

In the opening sentence of the catalogue's introduction, the art historian Scott Rothkopf writes, "Johns's paintings had grown too full" — conceding, in a remarkable gambit of damage control, a widely felt distaste for the artist's works of the nineteen-eighties and nineties, which were "jam-packed with signs of Johns's life and art".

The final mystery is eloquently put by Clark in the catalogue's introduction: how is it that the industrial revolution and its "appalling, resilient, humane, inhuman" social order have produced so little visual art – given that it had an earlier and larger effect on Britain than any other country – leaving the field to Lowry and his "deliberately limited and repetitive body of work".

Engraving in England in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries: A Descriptive Catalogue with Introductions, Part I: The Tudor Period.

Engraving in England in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries: A Descriptive Catalogue with Introductions, Part II: The Reign of James I. Cambridge: University Press.