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Call for Papers: Whistler’s Finish
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Past Issues
Tate Papers no.35
This issue focuses on the conservation of very different types of art. A group of five articles offers new research into the methods and materials of paintings by the Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani. In addition to this series, three papers by Tate conservators present their experiences with installations by Ima-Abasi Okon and Richard Bell.
Tate Papers no.34
Papers on the São Paulo Biennial (1964–85), a focus on socially engaged art and technical analysis of a Burne-Jones altarpiece
Tate Papers no.33
A group of papers on John Constable, and articles on Renato Guttuso, Jessa Fairbrother, Eva Hesse, and more
Tate Papers no.32
Focusing on ‘American art’, provincialism and transnationalism; and including articles on Joseph Beuys, Nam June Paik and experimental Philippine art
Tate Papers no.31
Joseph Beuys is the main focus of this issue, which also includes papers on Frank Bowling and Anthony Hill
Tate Papers no.30
A collection of papers from the ‘Positioning Nigerian Modernism’ conference, plus reflections on Tate Exchange
Tate Papers no.29
Including nineteenth-century sculptor John Gibson, practice-based research, former Tate director John Rothenstein’s curatorial vision and Chris Ofili’s The Upper Room
Tate Papers no.28
Examining seven works – three by Picasso, four by Picabia – all with paintings hidden beneath paintings
Tate Papers no.27
This issue features exchanges between British and American artists: David Hockney, Sargent, Joseph Pennell and more
Tate Papers no.26
Richard Hamilton, Bruce Nauman, Hungarian neo-avant-garde and contemporary art, and Meyer Schapiro
Tate Papers no.25
The politics of collaboration, Turner, Hepworth and the value of exhibitions
Tate Papers no.24
The internationalism of pop art, William Hazlitt, Paul Thek and Lynn Hershman Leeson
Tate Papers no.23
Art and ideas from Asia, politics, action and the body, Mark Rothko, Jay DeFeo, and visual experience in British art
Tate Papers no.22
Ludic exhibitions, Hepworth, learning at Tate, Victorian domestic art, deserts and ‘the end’
Tate Papers no.21
Paolozzi, Schendel, Sylvester, contemporary Chinese art, and photography and the American West
Tate Papers no.20
Adrian Stokes, Kenneth Clark, Barbara Hepworth and a newly restored sixteenth-century portrait
Tate Papers no.19
August Sander, Edward Burra, Akram Zaatari, learning and institutional critique, and Tate’s Digital Strategy
Tate Papers no.18
A group of papers on ‘involuntary drawing’, and others on Anthony Van Dyck, John Everett Millais, Allan Sekula
Tate Papers no.17
A group of papers from the ‘Art & Environment’ conference at Tate, as well as Francis Bacon, Edgar Degas and Van Dyck
Tate Papers no.16
The life and legacy of critic Lawrence Alloway and a report on learning initiatives associated with the ARTIST ROOMS collection
Tate Papers no.15
Carsten Höller, Henry Moore, David Musgrave, and articles from the conference Interpretation, Theory & the Encounter at Tate Britain
Tate Papers no.14
William Blake, drawing as a modern art practice, the sublime, Naum Gabo, Liubov Popova and Richard Hamilton
Tate Papers no.13
Articles from ‘Wrong From the Start’: Modernism and the Sublime, Anna Cutler on learning in cultural institutions, Tate’s online strategy
Tate Papers no.12
Including papers from Landmark Exhibitions: Contemporary Art Shows since 1968, and Rodchenko, The Other Story, art spaces in Beirut, and more
Tate Papers no.11
The artist as educator, Rothko interpretation at Tate, Sally Tallant on integrated programming, and more
Tate Papers no.10
Andrei Tarkovsky, a group of articles on Cy Twombly, the evolution of Tate’s peer-led youth group Tate Forum, and more
Tate Papers no.9
A collection of articles originating from the Archival Impulse Study Day at Tate Britain, as well as Alfredo Jaar, Constable and Hans Hartung
Tate Papers no.8
A collection of papers produced for Inherent Vice: The Replica and its Implications in Modern Sculpture, at Tate Modern
Tate Papers no.7
Gordon Matta-Clark and Le Corbusier, reconstructing artists’ oil painting materials, Augustus Leopold Egg, Josef Albers and Eva Hesse
Tate Papers no.6
Alfred Watkins, Rodney Graham, Edward Hopper, time-based media conservation, cleaning acrylic emulsion paint, Wassily Kandinsky
Tate Papers no.5
John Constable, Frances Hodgkins, Marcel Duchamp, Walter Sickert and seaside Pierrots, Jack Burnham’s systems aesthetics
Tate Papers no.4
Joseph Beuys, Emila Medková, the Schools Programme at Tate Modern, Thomas Gainsborough, Eileen Agar
Tate Papers no.3
Victor Burgin, the work of education curators at Tate, Thomas Guest and Paul Nash, Marcel Duchamp and Richard Hamilton
Tate Papers no.2
Teaching interpretation, New Media Art, painting conservation, E.A. Hornel, relational aesthetics, Donald Judd, and more
Tate Papers no.1
Art & Language, Doris Salcedo, Anthony Van Dyck, Gary Hill, Joseph Cornell, Henry Fuseli, Michael Landy, Bernd and Hilla Becher