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as "a delight, deeply but lightly erudite, intimate, written with exquisite intelligence". According to Linda Nochlin it "constructs a new and convincing scenario for the history of twentieth century painting ... wonderfully concrete in detail and wide-ranging in scope."
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and, most recently, at Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres (exhibited at the Royal Academy in 2015). Since 1982, he had been married to the author Judith Ravenscroft. He lived in North London. he dies on 7 September 2024.
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Hyman is also well known for his lectures that investigate the tangents and marginalia of art history. He has been a visiting lecturer in art at the Slade School of Fine Art,
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by David Ekserdjian as "an unimprovable union of exceptionally acute looking, magical prose, and authoritative scholarship". In 2016 Thames & Hudson published
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Timothy Hyman, Roger Malbert & Malcolm Jones. Published by National Touring Exhibitions (Hayward Gallery); and University of California Press.2001
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galleries. Hyman was a portraitist but is best known for his narrative renditions of London. Drawing inspiration from artists such as
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between 1963 and 1967. Since 1980 he has had ten London solo exhibitions. His earliest publications were on film (
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and other artists of the fourteenth and fifteenth century, and was described in the
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as 'by far the best thing ever written about the painter') was published by
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Catalogue of 2009 exhibition with texts by Tess Jaray and Richard Zimler
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Hyman and Roger Malbert curated the Hayward Gallery touring exhibition
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1997 Contemporary British Figurative Painting. Flowers East, London.
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He wrote extensively on art and film, was a regular contributor to
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The World New Made: Figurative Painting in the Twentieth Century.
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The World New Made: Figurative Painting in the Twentieth Century
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The World New Made: Figurative Painting in the Twentieth Century
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in Bristol. In 1980 and 1982, he was a Visiting Professor in
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Hyman has written on the work of many artists including
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lecture tours. Timothy Hyman was Artist in Residence at
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Narrative Paintings. Catalogue essay, Arnolfini. 1979
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Since 1990, he has been a regular contributor to the
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and has written on a variety of subjects including:
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article on the late Bhupen Khakhar at queerarts.org
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Pierre Bonnard
The Times Literary Supplement
Tate
Institute of Contemporary Arts
Hayward
Max Beckmann
Lorenzetti
Brueghel
Hove
Slade School of Fine Art

John Cowper Powys
The London Magazine
Artscribe
ICA
Arnolfini
Baroda
British Council
Lincoln Cathedral
Sandown Racecourse
Pierre Bonnard
Sienese School
Howard Hodgkin
R.B. Kitaj
Bhupen Khakhar
Times Literary Supplement
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Henry Darger

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