A beautiful and faithfully reproduced slipcase edition of the best-selling, revolutionary publication from one of history's most visionary artists.
Widely recognised as a masterpiece of English literature, Songs of Innocence and of Experience also occupies a key position in the history of Western art. This unique edition, newly reissued in a slipcase, sees William Blake communicating with his readers as he intended - reproducing his own illumination and lettering from the finest existing example of the original work. In this way, readers can experience the mystery and beauty of Blake's poems as he first created them, discovering for themselves the intricate web of symbol and meaning that connects word and image.
Each poem is accompanied by a literal transcription, and the volume is introduced by the renowned historian and critic, Richard Holmes. This beautiful edition of Songs of Innocence and of Experience will be essential for those familiar with Blake's work, but also offers an ideal way into his world for those encountering him for the first time.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Réédition pour ce joli volume qui examine un ensemble unique d'aquarelles produites par Turner, considéré comme le meilleur représentant de l'âge d'or de laquarelle anglaise. Voyageur invétéré à la recherche de la vue idéale, il quittait rarement sa maison sans un carnets de croquis, du papier, des crayons, et le matériel nécessaire à l'aquerelle. Sachant exploiter ce medium comme personne avant lui, il s'est fait connaître pour la luminosité et la transparence de ses réalisations, évoquant les effets de matière de la campagne et des ciels anglais, de la lagune de Venise, des lacs et montagnes suisses.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
Le siècle dernier a vu un changement radical des identités de genre et sexuelles pour les hommes et les femmes, reflété dans une période d'expérimentation artistique alors que les artistes cherchaient à défier les conventions sociales et à repousser les limites de ce qui était considéré comme acceptable. Le résultat est une richesse d'art profondément émotif et puissant destiné à exprimer une gamme de désirs et d'expériences, mais également à interroger, critiquer et provoquer le dialogue. Ce petit livre richement illustré présente une sélection d'oeuvres illustrant l'étendue et la profondeur de l'art queer du monde entier. Explorant l'identité, l'érotisme, les relations, les désirs cachés, l'amour et le genre à travers le dessin, la peinture, la photographie, la sculpture et le film, il raconte l'histoire de l'art queer de 1900 à aujourd'hui, révélant comment les expériences ont également été façonnées par la classe et l'ethnicité. comment l'art lui-même a joué un rôle clé dans le changement d'attitude et la cristallisation des identités. Y compris des oeuvres de divers artistes - parmi lesquels Egon Schiele, Duncan Grant, Romaine Brooks, Edward Burra, Salvador Dali, Frida Kahlo, David Hockney, Diane Arbus, Francis Bacon, Bhupen Khakhar, Zanele Muholi, Allyson Mitchell et Tomoko Kashiki - tous de qui a trouvé une nouvelle liberté dans les idées radicales et de nouvelles formes d'art.
Ce catalogue conçu comme un beau livre objet accompagne l'exposition présentée à la Tate Britain au printemps 2020. La circulation de l'exposition prévue au musée d'Orsay à partir du mois de juin aura finalement lieu à l'automne 2020.
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.
Du 29 avril au 31 octobre 2021, la Tate consacre une exposition à un nouvel aspect du travail de Rodin. Dans la lignée des nouvelles réflexions autour de Rodin, ce livre illustré se concentre spécifiquement sur l'utilisation du plâtre par l'artiste, un matériau qui a été crucial pour son processus, mais démontre aussi son intérêt pour la création de sculptures jamais considérées comme achevées, toujours en devenir. Unis par leur blancheur, une panoplie de pièces fragiles, expérimentales et uniques sera explorée aux côtés d'aspects alternatifs de certaines des oeuvres signature de Rodin, et d'une sélection de dessins et aquarelles de l'artiste - dont la fluidité et la forme définitive sont en rapport avec la surface liquide de ses sculptures. Edition reliée.
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.
'Any fool can paint, but drawing is the thing and drawing is the test. If you are a good draughtsman you are ipso facto a good painter' - Walter Sickert.
The drawings included in this publication reveal the working practice of Walter Sickert (1860-1942), an artist considered by many the 'father' of modern British art. Sickert was a prolific draughtsman throughout his career and used his drawings as preparatory works for his paintings. Drawn from nature, his sketches capture the intricacies of architectures, the infectious thrill of performance, and even the nuances of a subject's character. Sickert frequently visited locations again and again, investing long periods of time in locations to detail certain elements or even redraw entire views. In doing so, he was able to develop ideas and concepts before an image was possibly transferred to canvas.
As a mentor and teacher to a younger generation of artists he also attempted to teach the use of preparatory drawings to his proteges, steering the course of arts practice in Britain. Stored in Tate's collection and archive, this selection of drawings not only serve as a record of Sickert's creative process but express his engagement with the world around him, both in Britain and abroad.
