Tate Etc. Issue 30: Spring 2014

Tate Etc. issue 30 (Spring 2014) cover image

Tate Etc. issue 30 (Spring 2014)

Tate Etc. issue 30 (Summer 2014) - Richard Hamilton

Tate Etc. issue 30 (Summer 2014) - Richard Hamilton

Tate Etc. issue 30 (Summer 2014) - Richard Hamilton

Tate Etc. issue 30 (Summer 2014) - Richard Hamilton

Tate Etc. issue 30 (Summer 2014) - On Growth and Form

Tate Etc. issue 30 (Summer 2014) - On Growth and Form

Tate Etc. issue 30 (Summer 2014) - David Jones

Tate Etc. issue 30 (Summer 2014) - David Jones

Highlights include: Michael Bracewell’s three part homage to Richard Hamilton, an insightful interview with sculptor Richard Deacon, Nicholas Cullinan’s introduction to Tate Modern’s upcoming Henri Matisse exhibition, Brian Dillon on Ruin Lust, Michard Bird on Lynn Chadwick, Patrick Keiller on D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson’s influential On Growth and Form and Kathy Noble on the art of ambiguity.

Contents

In this Issue

The detritus of the future and pleasure of the past: Ruin Lust at Tate Britain

Brian Dillon

The exhibition Ruin Lust at Tate Britain explores artists’ and subsequently photographers’ fascination with the ruin, via works from JMW …

The fascinating absurdity of sculpture: In the studio: Phyllida Barlow

Lee Cheshire

On the eve of her forthcoming Tate Britain Commission to create a new work in response to the Tate collection, …

Before the flood, or after the war?: Winifred Knights at Tate Britain

For his recent verse drama Pink Mist, Owen Sheers interviewed dozens of wounded soldiers who had returned from conflict, …

Giorgio Griffa's Segni orizzontali, 1975: Recent aquisitions

Tate Etc. looks at a recent acquisition, currently on view at Tate Modern

Hellfire, damnation... and pudding: John Martin

Peter Gordon

The celebrated New Zealand chef Peter Gordon creates a novel recipe inspired  – unexpectedly – by John Martin's apocalyptic painting …

'Here, I knew I was being watched': BMW Tate Live: Performance Room

Capucine Perrot

BMW Tate Live: Performance Room is a series of performances commissioned and conceived exclusively to be viewed online, and the …

His brilliant final chapter: Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs

Nicholas Cullinan

The forthcoming exhibition of Henri Matisse’s ground-breaking paper cut-outs, made between 1943 and 1954, is the most comprehensive to date. …

How I learned to see: Richard Deacon at Tate Britain

Simon Grant1

The leading British sculptor Richard Deacon (born 1949), who first gained international prominence in the early 1980s, is the subject …

The imperfectionist: Urs Fischer and his public clay projects

Bice Curiger

A Swiss-style chalet made from bread; an excavated gallery floor; life-like wax figures that double as candles… Urs Fischer’s irreverent …

The luminous view: Recent Artists's Film and Video in Britain 2008-13

George Clark

Tate Britain is staging an ambitious survey of artists' film and video which reflects the extraordinary blossoming and diversity of …

Not Just a Stroll in the Garden: Patrick Heron

Giles Heron

An appreciation of the little-known ‘supreme gifts’ of the painter Patrick Heron by his younger brother

Seung-Taek Lee's Godret Stone, 1958: Recent aquisitions

Sook-Kyung Lee

Tate Etc. looks at a recent acquisition, currently on view at Tate Modern

Transmogrified by the trenches: David Jones at Tate Britain

The acclaimed poet Christopher Reid reflects on The Garden Enclosed 1924, currently on display at Tate Britain, which may have …

This was the modern world – part one: Richard Hamilton at Tate Modern

Michael Bracewell

To coincide with the retrospective at Tate Modern of Richard Hamilton, one of the most important and influential artists of …

This was the modern world - part three: Richard Hamilton at Tate Modern

Michael Bracewell

To coincide with the retrospective at Tate Modern of Richard Hamilton, one of the most important and influential artists of …

This was the modern world - part two: Richard Hamilton at Tate Modern

Michael Bracewell

To coincide with the retrospective at Tate Modern of Richard Hamilton, one of the most important and influential artists of …

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