Keith Arnatt

1930–2008

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

Keith Arnatt Pictures from a Rubbish Tip

1988–9
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Keith Arnatt, ‘Self-Burial (Television Interference Project)’ 1969

Keith Arnatt Self-Burial (Television Interference Project)

1969
T01747
Keith Arnatt, ‘Trouser - Word Piece’ 1972, printed 1989

Keith Arnatt Trouser - Word Piece

1972, printed 1989
T07649
Keith Arnatt, ‘Walking the Dog’ 1976–9

Keith Arnatt Walking the Dog

1976–9
T13051
Keith Arnatt, ‘Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of his Former Self’ 1969–72, printed 2000

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

1969–72, printed 2000
T07647
Keith Arnatt, ‘Pictures from a Rubbish Tip’ 1988–9

Keith Arnatt Pictures from a Rubbish Tip

1988–9
View by appointment T13167
Keith Arnatt, ‘Pictures from a Rubbish Tip’ 1988

Keith Arnatt Pictures from a Rubbish Tip

1988
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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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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, printed 1989

Keith Arnatt Trouser - Word Piece

1972, printed 1989
T07649
Keith Arnatt, ‘Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of his Former Self’ 1969–72, printed 2000

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

1969–72, printed 2000
T07647
Keith Arnatt, ‘Invisible Hole Revealed by the Shadow of the Artist’ 1968

Keith Arnatt Invisible Hole Revealed by the Shadow of the Artist

1968
P13145
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
P13143

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

Brian Dillon

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

Ten Miles on Exmoor: Art & Environment

Nicholas Alfrey

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

Nicholas Alfrey

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

David Campany

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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