Keith Arnatt

1930–2008

Keith Arnatt, ‘Self-Burial (Television Interference Project)’ 1969
Self-Burial (Television Interference Project) 1969
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Biography

Keith Arnatt (1930–2008) was a British conceptual artist. As well as conceptual art his work is sometimes discussed in relation to land art, minimalism, and photography. He lived and worked in London, Liverpool, Yorkshire and Monmouthshire.

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Artworks

Keith Arnatt, ‘Self-Burial (Television Interference Project)’ 1969

Keith Arnatt Self-Burial (Television Interference Project)

1969
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Keith Arnatt, ‘Pictures from a Rubbish Tip’ 1988–9

Keith Arnatt Pictures from a Rubbish Tip

1988–9
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Keith Arnatt, ‘Trouser - Word Piece’ 1972–89

Keith Arnatt Trouser - Word Piece

1972–89
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Keith Arnatt, ‘Walking the Dog’ 1976–9

Keith Arnatt Walking the Dog

1976–9
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Keith Arnatt, ‘Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of his Former Self’ 1969–72

Keith Arnatt Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of his Former Self

1969–72
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Keith Arnatt, ‘Pictures from a Rubbish Tip’ 1988–9

Keith Arnatt Pictures from a Rubbish Tip

1988–9
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Keith Arnatt, ‘Pictures from a Rubbish Tip’ 1988

Keith Arnatt Pictures from a Rubbish Tip

1988
T13170
Keith Arnatt, ‘I Have Decided to Go to the Tate Gallery Next Friday’ 1971

Keith Arnatt I Have Decided to Go to the Tate Gallery Next Friday

1971
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Artist as subject

Keith Arnatt, ‘Self-Burial (Television Interference Project)’ 1969

Keith Arnatt Self-Burial (Television Interference Project)

1969
T01747
Keith Arnatt, ‘Trouser - Word Piece’ 1972–89

Keith Arnatt Trouser - Word Piece

1972–89
T07649
Keith Arnatt, ‘Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of his Former Self’ 1969–72

Keith Arnatt Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of his Former Self

1969–72
T07647
Keith Arnatt, ‘I Have Decided to Go to the Tate Gallery Next Friday’ 1971

Keith Arnatt I Have Decided to Go to the Tate Gallery Next Friday

1971
P13142
Keith Arnatt, ‘Invisible Hole Revealed by the Shadow of the Artist’ 1968

Keith Arnatt Invisible Hole Revealed by the Shadow of the Artist

1968
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Keith Arnatt, ‘Portrait of the artist as a shadow of his former self’ 1969–72

Keith Arnatt Portrait of the artist as a shadow of his former self

1969–72
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Film and audio

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TateShots: Paul Farley

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Features

Tim Lee, ‘Upside-down Water Torture Chamber, Harry Houdini, 1913’ 2004
Art Term

Conceptual photography

Conceptual photography is photography that illustrates an idea

Tacita Dean, ‘The Wreck of Worthing Pier’ 2001
Tate Etc

The detritus of the future and pleasure of the past: Ruin Lust at Tate Britain

The exhibition Ruin Lust at Tate Britain explores artists’ and subsequently photographers’ fascination with the ruin, via works from JMW ...

Keith Arnatt, ‘Self-Burial (Television Interference Project)’ 1969
Tate Papers

Ten Miles on Exmoor: Art & Environment

Suggesting that Richard Long’s A Ten Mile Walk England is as much concerned with boundaries as it is with ...

John Riddy, ‘London (Wyndham Road) 2008’ 2009
Tate Etc

Romanticism gets real: British landscape photography

The Romanticism display in the Clore Galleries at Tate Britain features more than 170 paintings and prints, as well as ...

Eadweard Muybridge Self-Portrait 1885
Tate Etc

Moving with the times: Eadweard Muybridge I

The pioneering nineteenth-century Anglo-American photographer is best known for his images of animal and human subjects in motion, but was ...

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Body art Conceptual art Land art Performance art Conceptual photography

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