An indispensable introduction to the life and work of J.M.W. Turner, whose pioneering explorations into oil and watercolours continue to offer revelatory, definitive interpretations of modern subjects.
La Tate consacre une grande rétrospective à Anni Albers (d'abord présentée à Düsseldorf à l'été, elle sera à Londres à partir d'octobre 2018). Cette exposition de grande envergure vise à présenter Anni Albers seule, comme un grand nom du Bauhaus et de l'abstraction, distinctement de son mari Josef. Elle explore ainsi toutes les facettes de sa création : ses tissages réputés, mais également ses travaux graphiques, ses objets et ses créations de bijoux.
David Hockney has been delighting and challenging audiences for sixty years and celebrated artworks from across his career are at the centre of Tate's outstanding collection. This book features over a hundred of these paintings, prints, drawings and photographs, helping the reader to understand the artist's changing sources of inspiration and, crucially, where his work is going. Beginning in the 1950s when he made his first steps to becoming a modern artist, the publication charts Hockney's ground-breaking images of the early 1960s through to his famous depictions of the Los Angeles cityscape. It also looks at Hockney's much-loved portraits from the 1970s and his discovery of a new way of dealing with time, space and perspective he called 'Moving Focus', as well as more recent landscapes and digital images that demonstrate his lifelong preoccupation with pictorial space and how we look at and experience the world around us.
As well as providing a unique overview of Hockney's prolific range and activity, this book features new texts and responses to his work by established and emerging voices from the worlds of art, design, literature and performance. Breathing new life into the nexus of Tate's collection, it speaks to the artist's refusal to conform during periods of uncertainty and polarization as he traversed the boundaries of class, sexuality and high art and how his work still surprises, unsettles and addresses younger generations of viewers.
Songs of Innocence and of Experience est un recueil de poésie du peintre et poète pré-romantique britannique William Blake, édité pour la première fois en 1789 par l'auteur lui-même en quelques exemplaires. Cette jolie édition en petit format reproduit les illuminations de l'artiste, avec ses gravures et les poèmes reproduit dans leur lettrage original.
TATE Britain Exhibition 6 April - 24 September 2023.
A visually stunning book devoted to the radical Rossetti generation. The Rossettis' approach to art, love and lifestyles are considered revolutionary. This is explored by a range of short thematic essays containing fresh, and surprising research, accompanied by beautiful and iconic Pre-Raphaelite illustrations. Featuring artworks and writings by Dante Gabriel, Christina and Elizabeth (nee Siddal), the book distinguishes the Rossettis from Victorian culture and foregrounds their countercultural roles The publication accompanies the first retrospective of Dante Gabriel Rossetti at Tate and the largest exhibition of his iconic pictures in two decades, and what will also be the most comprehensive exhibition of Elizabeth Siddal's work for 30 years, featuring rare surviving watercolours and important drawings.
The Rossettis will take a fresh look at the fascinating myths surrounding the unconventional relationships between Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Elizabeth Siddal, Fanny Cornforth and Jane Morris.
Ce catalogue accompagne une grande rétrospective à la Tate Modern au printemps 2024 consacrée à Yoko Ono et à toutes les facettes de son travail, entre performance, peinture, video et musique.
Ce catalogue d'une exposition à la Tate offre un accès sans précédent à la collection de chefs-d'oeuvre expressionnistes exposés ensemble au Royaume-Uni pour la première fois en 80 ans. Rassemblés autour de Wassily Kandinsky et de Gabriele Münter, les artistes expressionnistes ont expérimenté la couleur, le son et la lumière, créant un art audacieux et vibrant. Des enquêtes approfondies sur des thèmes majeurs et une grande variété d'essais offrent une fenêtre intime et éclairante sur un groupe artistique remarquable : leurs voyages et leurs techniques, leurs intérêts et sources d'inspiration, ainsi que les relations qui les unissaient.
A fascinating introduction to the life and work of John Constable, highlighting key aspects of his innovative practice and the ways in which he brought a new vivacity to the observation of nature in nineteenth century art.
La Tate édite en facsimilé un des carnets d'étude de Turner, qu'il réalisait en extérieur et utilisait parfois comme étude pour des peintures d'atelier. Celui-ci est uniquement consacré à ses aquarelles représentant des ciels nuageux de la campagne anglaise, vers Hamstead Heath et dans le Kent.
La Tate détient la plus importante collection au monde de carnets de Turner, qui, pour le peintre, représentaient la partie intime et privée de son travail. Elle en réédite régulièrement en facsimilé. Sur les quelques 300 carnets de croquis retrouvés dans sa maison après son décès, et désormais conservés à la Clore Gallery, une partie de la Tate Britain, ce petit volume reproduit ici représente une étape importante du tavail de Turner en tant que graveur, alors âgé de 21 ans à peine.
A partir des collections de la Tate Modern et de la Tate Britain, cet ouvrage propose un joli panorama des créatoins artistiques qui mettent en avant les créations de mode.
Ce petit volume donne accès à certaines des pratiques artistiques les plus importantes et les plus intéressantes nées du mouvement féministe. Avec une cinquantaine d'oeuvres - de la fin des années 1960 à nos jours - A Little Feminist History of Art reflète la vie des femmes à travers les époques, ainsi que leur évolution et affirmation en tant qu'artistes révélant ainsi l'impact de l'idéologie féministe sur la culture visuelle.
Une monographie de l'artiste et caricaturiste anglais John Heartfield. Né à Berlin en 1891, il est perçu, avec Georges Grosz, comme l'un des pères du photomontage. Considéré par Aragon comme le « prototype de l'artiste antifasciste », il consacra une grande partie de sa vie à détourner les affiches de propagande nazie qu'il publia dans « Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung », magazine antifasciste allemand des années 1930.
An indispensable introduction to the life and work of John Singer Sargent, the most accomplished portrait painter of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century.
Behind the Red Moon d'El Anatsui est une installation sculpturale monumentale réalisée pour la Turbine Hall de la Tate Modern dans le cadre de la Hunday Commission composée de milliers de bouchons et de fragments de bouteilles en métal. L'artiste les a ensuite rassemblés dans différentes compositions donnant vie à des grands panneaux qui forment d'immenses champs abstraits de couleurs, de formes et de lignes. Dans ces étonnantes tentures, le passé et le présent de l'Afrique et de l'Europe se fondent en effet dans des formes sculpturales qui incarnent l'idée d'Anatsui de la « forme non fixe » et font partie de son approche hautement expérimentale de la sculpture. L'oeuvre s'appuie sur l'intérêt d'Anatsui pour les histoires de rencontres et de migrations de biens et de personnes au cours de la traite transatlantique des esclaves et explore les forces élémentaires mêlées aux histoires humaines de pouvoir, d'oppression, de dispersion et de survie.
Catalogue de l'exposition présentée à la Tate Modern qui retrace la carrière de l'artiste américaine Agnès Martin, figure majeure de l'abstraction américaine. Son oeuvre picturale repose sur des règles strictes de réalisation et sur l'exploration d'un motif quasiment unique : la grille. Souvent associée à l'esthétique minimaliste, elle conjugue un formalisme rigoureux et une approche extrêmement sensible du motif et du pigment qui font de ses toiles des objets méditatifs.
Tate Britain is the home of British art from 1500 to the present day. This luxury guide to the highlights of the collection provides an essential introduction to the extraordinary development of British art over the centuries, telling the story of the collection and presenting a selection of the stunning works on display.
British art is also notable for genres unique to itself: group portraits, known as 'conversation pieces', focusing on social relations between friends, family and allies; themes from British literature, particularly Shakespeare, Milton and Tennyson (rather than classical mythology); and topical subjects in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries reflecting the wars with France and the scientific innovations of the Industrial Revolution. Hogarth ushered in an art of social engagement, as did the artists associated with the Young British Art movement more recently.
The art from Britain in Tate's collection is rich with imaginative invention and reinvention and this panoramic book celebrates this aesthetic ingenuity as an ongoing story, revealing how 500 years of art can act as a fascinating lens through which to deepen our understanding of ourselves and society, past and present, in both Britain and in the rest of the world.
This generous companion to the Tate collection provides a sumptuous compendium of the rich history of British art, designed to offer readers an overview of the collection and demonstrate the remarkable range of art in the collection.
Created to accompany one of the most exciting exhibitions of 2020, this stunning paperback catalogue presents the full breadth of Muholi's photographic and activist practice.
Richly illustrated, it includes images from the key series Muholi has produced over the past twenty years, as well as never-before-published and recent works. The exhibition book also features six newly commissioned essays exploring their work, as well as a full glossary and chronology.
Born in South Africa, Zanele Muholi came to prominence in the early 2000s with photographs that sought to envision black lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and intersex lives beyond deviance or victimhood. Muholi's work challenges hetero-patriarchal ideologies and representations, presenting the participants in their photographs as confident and beautiful individuals bravely existing in the face of prejudice, intolerance and, frequently, violence. While Muholi's intimate photographs of others launched their international career, their intense self-portraits solidified it.
Sarah Allen is Assistant Curator at Tate Modern.
Yasufumi Nakamori is Senior Curator, International Art at Tate Modern.
A powerful, timely and thought-provoking exploration of the transformative role of the museum - and of art - in society today.
As the world continues to adapt to the consequences of a global pandemic that has disrupted social life as we have known it, museums continue to experience unprecedented disruption and change. The sector has endured a nearly two-year period where they were closed to the public. Many also discovered new audiences and new purpose, through global digital connection, through renewed
Discover how artists used machines and algorithms to create mesmerising and mind-bending art between the 1950s and the early 1990s.
From collaged punch cards to early experiments with virtual reality, artists have found inspiration in technology to invent new forms and new ways to engage the senses. Bringing together works by groundbreaking artists from across Asia, Europe and the Americas, Electric Dreams celebrates the innovators of optical, kinetic, programmed and digital art, who imag
Taking you behind the lens during a decade of significant social and political change, discover the remarkable transformation of British photography in the 1980s, and its impact on art across the world.
This book traces critical developments in photographic art in the UK, made by a diverse range of photographers in and around the Thatcher era (1976-1993). Rather than presenting a comprehensive history, the publication showcases more than 70 lens-based artists, and reveal numerous small histories, known
An indispensable introduction to the life and work of Barbara Hepworth, whose sculptures expanded the possibilities for the purpose of art within modern society and how it can express human relationships with our surroundings.
To accompany a major exhibition of one of the central figures in British art and the first exhibition dedicated to Sickert at Tate since 1960.
Walter Sickert was one of the most influential artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. An apprentice of Whistler and close associate of Degas, he engaged with the work of French artists of the time. Sickert in turn influenced many British painters up to the present day.
This book will show how Sickert transformed the representation of everyday life, with his innovative approach to subject matter, radical compositions and the evocation of the materiality of existence in paint. It will explore the changing nature of his work - from an impressionistic approach in the 1880s to a pioneering use of photography in the 1930s - and how he returned over and over to locations and subjects, including his penetrating self-portraits. Sickert's imagination was fuelled by news and current events such as the Camden Town Murders and newspaper photography, but also by popular culture - music halls, the stage, the rise of cinema and celebrity.
Featuring over 200 images from the exhibition and a wide range of essays by scholars, as well as reflections on Sickert's relevance and influence by a selection of contemporary painters including Kaye Donachie and Somaya Critchlow.
