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The Body in Sculpture
by Tom Flynn
A history of the representation of the body in Western sculpture

Clive Head: Paintings, 1996-2001

by Tom Flynn and Linda Chase
A survey of the work of contemporary British Photorealist painter Clive Head

Artnose

Edited by Percy Flarge

Welcome to the website of Tom Flynn. The site contains a small selection of pdfs of journalism, comment, criticism, and reviews on sculpture, contemporary painting, museums, the art market, stolen art and cultural heritage.
My published books are listed right and left.

Contact: tomflynn at bt internet dot com

Veronica Bailey's photographic work at Colnaghi

The Frankfurt School philosopher Walter Benjamin once remarked that to a true collector the acquisition of an old book represents its rebirth.

Every book has its fate, he wrote, but quite what Benjamin would have thought of the digitizing of libraries is a moot point. However, one can be confident that as a committed bibliophile he would have approved of the highly original new body of work by the Jerwood Photographic Prize-winning artist Veronica Bailey currently on view in London's Old Bond Street. more...

Drawing on Memory:
The Art of Paul Chiappe

I first encountered Paul Chiappe's work at last summer's Scope contemporary art fair in Regent's Park in London where his tiny drawings were being exhibited on the stand of London dealers Madder 139.

At first mistaking them for faded old black and white photographs, I almost walked straight past them without stopping. But something drew me in. Perhaps they triggered a distant memory of my mother's many albums of photos taken on an old box Brownie in Liverpool in the 1940s and 1950s. In some of the late 1950s images I appear as a ghostly figure in short trousers and school cap, exactly the sort of smudged-face schoolboy one finds posing so self-consciously in Paul Chiappe's works. more...

Sean Henry
by Tom Flynn
A monograph on contemporary British sculptor Sean Henry

Colonialism and the Object: Empire, Material Culture and the
Museum
(Tom Flynn & Tim Barringer, Eds)

museums

The Universal Museum: A Valid Model for the 21st Century? (pdf) An unpublished historical and critical analysis of the concept of the 'universal' or encyclopaedic museum

art market

Winds of Change: The effects of Hurricane Katrina on the fine art insurance industry (pdf) Prepared for the TEFAF Maastricht Fine Art Fair, 2006

contemporary painting

Still Time: An interview with British photo-realist painter Ben Johnson (pdf)

contemporary sculpture

New large-scale sculpture by Jedd Novatt (pdf) Catalogue text for exhibition of work by American artist Jedd Novatt at Musée La Piscine, Roubaix, France, June-September 2008

Who Dares Speak its Name? Deaccessioning in UK museums is unavoidable (pdf)

Faking it The Amarna Princess affair offered a reminder that like the poor, fakes are always with us

Artknows: A blog of comment and opinion, some considered, some shot from the hip.