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ISSN 1753-9854

Tate Papers no.22 Autumn 2014

This issue looks at examples of twentieth-century exhibitions in which notions of play were harnessed by artists and institutions seeking to challenge conventional viewing experiences. Other topics include the evolution of Victorian domestic art, Barbara Hepworth’s relationship with her dealers Gimpel Fils, the American desert and representations of ‘the end’, and perceptions of learning at Tate.

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Barbara Hepworth and Gimpel Fils: The Rise and Fall of an Artist-Dealer Relationship

Alice Correia

All Play and No Work? A ‘Ludistory’ of the Curatorial as Transitional Object at the Early ICA

Ben Cranfield

‘Everything Was Getting Smashed’: Three Case Studies of Play and Participation, 1965–71

Hilary Floe

Duchamp, Childhood, Work and Play: The Vernissage for First Papers of Surrealism , New York, 1942

David Hopkins

No End to the End: The Desert as Eschatology in Late Modernity

Matilde Nardelli

Perceptions, Processes and Practices around Learning in an Art Gallery

Emily Pringle and Jennifer DeWitt

George Elgar Hicks’s Woman’s Mission and the Apotheosis of the Domestic

Kendall Smaling Wood

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