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Andrei Tarkovsky and Contemporary Art: Medium and Mediation
The rediscovery of the Soviet film director Andrei Tarkovsky (1932–1986) as an artist in the cinema allows us to see …
Advocating to Stakeholders
Advocacy – what is it? – and, indeed, stakeholders: who are they? The answers to these questions will be different …
Some Notes on Words and Things in Cy Twombly’s Sculptural Practice
This paper presents an extended close reading of Cy Twombly’s Untitled (Funerary Box for a Lime Green Python), 1954, …
Cy Twombly’s Humanist Upbringing
In the United States postmodern scepticism often has relegated Cy Twombly’s engagement with classical and humanist themes to nostalgia, irrelevance …
On the Evolution of a Peer-led Programmme: Tate Forum
This paper reflects on the development of Tate Forum, Tate Britain’s peer-led youth group (established 2002), drawing on interviews with …
The History and Manufacture of Lithol Red, a Pigment Used by Mark Rothko in his Seagram and Harvard Murals of the 1950s and 1960s
For his 1950s and 1960s Seagram and Harvard murals, American artist Mark Rothko employed lithol red – a highly fugitive …
Time-Lines: Rilke and Twombly on the Nile
Cy Twombly’s remark that ‘lines have a great effect on painting’ resonates not only with his graphic practice but with …
An Unpublished Drawing by Duchamp: Hell in Philadelphia
This paper discusses a hitherto unpublished drawing by Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) that relates to his masterwork The Bride Stripped Bare …
Perspectives: Negotiating the Archive
Archives are more prominent than ever, not only in art practice and theoretical discourse but also in popular culture. An …
Alfredo Jaar and the Post-Traumatic Gaze
This paper discusses the relation between trauma and representation in the work of Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar (born 1956), focusing …
Sir Edward Manton's Glebe: Completing the Provenance of Constable's Glebe Farm Sketch c.1830
When John Constable’s sketch of The Glebe Farm was formally presented to Tate Britain in 2006, after the death of …
Art in the Archives: An Artist's Residency in the Archives of the London School of Economics
This paper explores the aims and outcomes of an artist’s residency in the Archives of the London School of Economics. …
Tangentially: The Archive and the Bathroom
This paper discusses the role of the archive in relation to the artistic process, through the work of Lucy Gunning, …
The Legacy of Interaction: Artists at the Imperial War Museum 1981–2007
The idea that artists might reinvigorate and activate collections in new ways no longer seems a radical concept, but this …
The Very Late Style of Hans Hartung
Hans Hartung (1904–1989) suffered a major stroke in 1986 and was wheelchair-bound for his remaining years. Yet in this period …
The Modern Cult of Replicas: A Rieglian Analysis of Values in Replication
Sebastiano Barassi, The Modern Cult of Replicas: A Rieglian Analysis of Values in Replication; Tate Papers no.8, featuring the conservation …
Towards Anarchitecture: Gordon Matta-Clark and Le Corbusier
Gordon Matta-Clark (1943–1978), who trained originally as an architect, is best known for his spectacular ‘building cuts’. These have often …
Historically Accurate Reconstructions of Artists’ Oil Painting Materials
This paper describes a four-year project (2002 to 2006) funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research entitled Historically Accurate …
A Dramatic Reading of Augustus Leopold Egg’s Untitled Triptych
This article explores the significance of the theatrical and literary references found in the triptych Past and Present 1858 by …
Josef Albers, Eva Hesse, and the Imperative of Teaching
This paper examines affinities between the Bauhaus-indebted instructional methods and practices of Josef Albers and the sculpture of Eva Hesse, …