Paul McCarthy

born 1945

Paul McCarthy, ‘Painter’ 1995
Painter 1995
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  • Jeff Koons, ‘Winter Bears’ 1988

    Art Term

    Kitsch

    Kitsch is the German word for trash, and is used in English to describe particularly cheap, vulgar and sentimental forms …
  • Sarah Lucas, ‘Chicken Knickers’ 1997

    Art Term

    Abject art

    Abject art is used to describe artworks which explore themes that transgress and threaten our sense of cleanliness and propriety …
  • Basil Wolverton, Heap 1955 ink on paper

    Tate Etc

    Rudely transgressing the boundaries between the elevated and the profane

    Jonathan Griffin

    Etc. Essay: The grotesque
  • Sculpture of a rudimentary figure made from aluminium and acrylic paint, which has been made to look like torn fragments of white paper lying on the floor.

    Tate Papers

    David Musgrave: Faulty Images

    Kate Macfarlane

    This paper takes as its starting point two drawings by David Musgrave in Tate’s collection, Plane with inverted figure 2007 …
  • Piero Manzoni Artists Breath 1960

    Tate Etc

    Next-to-nothing

    Steven Connor

    In 1935 Gertrude Stein wrote that in a painting there should be "no air...no feeling of air". As Steven Connor …

  • Tate Etc

    Play on: The World as a Stage

    Marie de Brugerolle

    To coincide with the forthcoming The World as a Stage exhibition at Tate Modern, Marie de Brugerolle explores how contemporary …

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