Masters 8

Juliet Jacques profiles the photographer Lisetta Carmi who sensitively documented the lives of her friends

The origins of Gustave Courbet’s ‘Origin of the World’

The movement that is traditionally understood as white and privileged was more racially mixed than is commonly accepted

The influence of Isaac Levitan’s 1897 painting Spring, High Water on 20th-century film

Flavia Frigeri discusses a very Roman take on modernism

How radical art bloomed at Dartington, West Dean and Grizedale 

Re-assessing the 19th-century artist, critic and historian’s contemporary relevance on the bicentenary of his birth