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Merzzeichnung: Typology and Typography
When Kurt Schwitters began making collages in 1918, the initial term he used to describe them was Merzzeichnungen (Merz drawings). …
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‘A Wistful Dream of Far-Off Californian Glamour’: David Sylvester and the British View of American Art
David Sylvester’s criticism from the 1950s and 1960s combined enthusiasm for the vitality of new American art with ambivalence about …
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Carlos Cruz-Diez’s Physichromies: Between Centre and Periphery
In 1959 the Franco-Venezuelan kinetic artist Carlos Cruz-Diez developed his first abstract series of works, named the Physichromies. These works …
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Lives of the Artists: Nigel Henderson
Louis Henderson on how the work of his great uncle, Nigel Henderson (1917–1985), still haunts the present
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As Seen: Modern British Painting and Visual Experience
During the twentieth century several important British artists began to paint features of visual experience rarely ever painted before, including …
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'To drag the past into the present and re-animate it'
What is it like to sit for Frank Auerback every week for more than 30 years? Tate curator, Catherine Lampert, …
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Who are Guerrilla Girls?
Who are Guerrilla Girls? A brief look at the activist female artists who are changing the world one poster at …
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Exhibition and Reception
Tate In Focus project exploring The Doll’s House 1899–1900 by William Rothenstein
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Introduction
Introduction to In Focus research project on String Composition 128 1964 by Sue Fuller, authored by Alex Taylor with contributions …
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Emerson’s Evolution
British photographer Peter Henry Emerson’s dramatic recantation of his beliefs about photography and art forms a canonical yet perplexing episode …
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Archiving the Uncollectable: Museum Education and Memory Loss
Memory loss, struggles in communicating our work, changes in mood, apathy, confusion, difficulty in building our own storyline, a failing …
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Muscular Modernism
Sarah Victoria Turner explores the circumstances of the making of the relief and the posthumous cast of Wrestlers by Henri …
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Naum Gabo as a Soviet Émigré in Berlin
Naum Gabo’s arrival in Berlin in 1922, which initiated his lifetime emigration from the Soviet Union, has been interpreted as …
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De Kooning’s Embodied Vision and Abstract Expressionism in the 1960s
Tate Research In Focus study on Women Singing II 1966 by Willem de Kooning
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Sugar, Salt and Curdled Milk: Millais and the Synthetic Subject
This article examines the sexual imagery of particular paintings by the Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais. It argues that criticism …
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‘Not Incorrect and Particularly Not Irrelevant’: Joseph Beuys and Henning Christiansen, 1966–71
Between 1966 and 1971, Danish composer Henning Christiansen (1932–2008) appeared in eight of Joseph Beuys’s actions. This article examines the …
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The Craze for Pastel: Essay
Ruth Kenny's essay on The Craze for Pastel in conjunction with a 2014 BP Spotlight display at Tate Britain on …
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Rembrandt and Reality
Tate In Focus project exploring The Doll’s House 1899–1900 by William Rothenstein
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Common Threads
Common Threads, part of an In Focus research project on String Composition 128 1964 by Sue Fuller, authored by Alex …
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Virginia Woolf: Thinking Back Through Our Mothers
Virginia Woolf’s radical feminist approach to writing has inspired generations of writers and artists. As a forthcoming exhibition at Tate …