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Iconic Portraits: Revising the Canon
Tate Research In Focus study on Family Jules: NNN (No Naked Niggahs) 1974 by Barkley L. Hendricks
On the Evolution of a Peer-led Programmme: Tate Forum
This paper reflects on the development of Tate Forum, Tate Britain’s peer-led youth group (established 2002), drawing on interviews with …
‘Remembering Exhibitions’: From Point to Line to Web: Landmark Exhibitions Issue
The author discusses the proliferation of the new genre of ‘remembering exhibitions’ as part of the recent interest in the …
Listening for the Sublime: Aural-Visual Improvisations in Nineteenth-Century Musical Art
Music’s capacity to expose the contradictions which emerged within late nineteenth-century understandings of the sublime is explored in relation to …
Representation and Reputation: Barbara Hepworth’s Relationships with her American and British Dealers
After the Second World War Barbara Hepworth sought to raise her profile in America, but her attempts to do so …
Zen as a Transnational Current in Post-War Art: The Case of Mira Schendel
In this paper Majella Munro proposes that Zen can be applied as a transnational intellectual framework for the analysis of …
Hatchings: Technique as Motif
Tate Research In Focus project on Dancers on a Plane 1980–1 by Jasper Johns
Dust and Doubt: The Deserts and Galaxies of Vija Celmins
This article considers one work on paper by Vija Celmins in the ARTIST ROOMS collection: Untitled (Desert–Galaxy) 1974. In a …
‘A Wistful Dream of Far-Off Californian Glamour’: David Sylvester and the British View of American Art
David Sylvester’s criticism from the 1950s and 1960s combined enthusiasm for the vitality of new American art with ambivalence about …
The Great Reason of the Body: Friedrich Nietzsche, Joseph Beuys and the Art of Giving Meaning to Matter and Earth
This paper explores how Joseph Beuys interpreted philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche’s concepts of the ‘Great Reason of the Body’ and the …
Afterthoughts: Introduction
Matthew Gale , Afterthoughts: Introduction; Tate Papers no.8
Becoming Machine: Surrealist Automatism and Some Contemporary Instances: Involuntary Drawing
Examining the idea of being ‘machine-like’ and its impact on the practice of automatic writing, this article charts a history …
Barbara Hepworth and Gimpel Fils: The Rise and Fall of an Artist-Dealer Relationship
Records held in the Gimpel Fils Gallery Archive in London shed new light on Barbara Hepworth’s relationship with her dealers, …
No End to the End: The Desert as Eschatology in Late Modernity
At the height of the Cold War, artists, writers and filmmakers in America turned to the desert as a space …
Portrait of a Doctor c.1935–1947, by Francis Picabia
Portrait of a Doctor is actually two paintings: one was painted on top of the other at a later date. …
‘Truth of Character from Truth of Feeling’: William Hazlitt, ‘Gusto’ and the Linguistic History of Writing on Art
Adapting and applying speech act theories of language use, this paper offers a new understanding of the innovative import of …
Artist Versus Teacher: The Problem of David Bomberg’s Pedagogical Legacy
The British artist David Bomberg’s parallel activities of teaching and painting during his later career are often treated as oppositional. …
Beuys’s Legacy in Artist-led University Projects
Joseph Beuys’s Free International University for Creativity and Interdisciplinary Research (FIU), established in the early 1970s, stands at the beginning …
To Be Continued: Periodic Exhibitions ( dOCUMENTA , for Example): Landmark Exhibitions Issue
In this paper the author reflects on the early history of the dOCUMENTA exhibitions held every five years in Kassel, …