{"id":886,"date":"2015-05-13T10:44:38","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T09:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=886"},"modified":"2015-08-17T17:29:28","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T16:29:28","slug":"dr-ben-thomas-on-marcus-rees-roberts-and-hope-artwork-by-aithan-shapira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2015\/05\/13\/dr-ben-thomas-on-marcus-rees-roberts-and-hope-artwork-by-aithan-shapira\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Ben Thomas on Marcus Rees Roberts and &#8216;Hope: Artwork by Aithan Shapira&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Ben Thomas, Senior Lecturer in History of Art, has published the first major article on the prints of contemporary artist Marcus Rees Roberts, described by Susan Tallman, editor of <em>Art in Print<\/em>, as <em>&#8216;densely allusive paragons of cosmopolitan erudition&#8217;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/artinprint.org\/article\/the-early-prints-of-marcus-rees-roberts\/\">You can read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He\u00a0has also contributed to the catalogue of contemporary artist Aithan Shapira&#8217;s exhibition <em>Hope<\/em> at the Florida Holocaust Museum (1 May \u2013 19 July 2015). More information about the exhibition can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flholocaustmuseum.org\/event\/hope-artwork-by-aithan-shapira\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aithanshapira.com\/HOPE%20Catalog_Aithan%20Shapira_NFD.pdf\">View the catalogue here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Image:\u00a0Marcus Rees Roberts, The Dour Life I (1980), etching and aquatint, image 19.5 x 15.5 cm. Edition of 6. Printed by the artist, London and Edinburgh. Image courtesy of Pratt Contemporary, London.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Ben Thomas, Senior Lecturer in History of Art, has published the first major article on the prints of contemporary artist Marcus Rees Roberts, described &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2015\/05\/13\/dr-ben-thomas-on-marcus-rees-roberts-and-hope-artwork-by-aithan-shapira\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39610,"featured_media":887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25563,50209,9112],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":888,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions\/888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}