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Lazy Objects: Viewing Mladen Stilinović’s Exploitation of the Dead
Mladen Stilinović’s artwork Exploitation of the Dead 1984–90 comprises a huge group of objects concerned with the history of the …
Weathering the Storm: Ben Enwonwu’s Biafrascapes and the Crisis in the Nigerian Postcolony
This article appraises Nigerian artist Ben Enwonwu’s contribution to postcolonial modernism in Nigeria through an analysis of his artistic responses …
What Would Tutuola Do?
Amos Tutuola (1920–1997) was a self-taught writer who began his career by recording Yoruba folktales and rewriting them in Nigerian …
The Geometry of Syntactics, Semantics and Pragmatics: Anthony Hill’s Concrete Paintings
Between 1952 and 1956, the British artist Anthony Hill made a small number of abstract, concrete paintings before turning away …
Crossing Borders, Bridging Histories: Christian Weikop in conversation with Richard Demarco
This interview between Christian Weikop and the artist, gallerist and impresario Richard Demarco (born 1930) took place in Scotland on …
‘More Impact than the Venice Biennale’: Demarco, Beuys and Strategy: Get Arts
In this essay Christian Weikop closely examines primary source correspondence and press material from the Richard Demarco Archive at the …
Beuys’s Legacy in Artist-led University Projects
Joseph Beuys’s Free International University for Creativity and Interdisciplinary Research (FIU), established in the early 1970s, stands at the beginning …
Frank Bowling: Material Explorations
This paper establishes a technical art history of the paintings of Frank Bowling and chronicles materials and techniques used by …
Joseph Beuys: An Earthquake in People’s Minds
In 1981 the German sculptor and action artist Joseph Beuys created two works – the sculpture Terremoto in Rome and …
Joseph Beuys and EURASIA
In this paper Victoria Walters addresses Joseph Beuys’s interest in the notion of Eurasia – Europe and Asia as a …
Dialogue, Encounter, Exchange: Joseph Beuys’s Visual and Textual Presence in Art into Society – Society into Art (1974)
Joseph Beuys’s participation in the influential exhibition Art into Society – Society into Art: Seven German Artists, held in …
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 …
The Great Reason of the Body: Friedrich Nietzsche, Joseph Beuys and the Art of Giving Meaning to Matter and Earth
This paper explores how Joseph Beuys interpreted philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche’s concepts of the ‘Great Reason of the Body’ and the …
Tel Quel and the Subject of American Painting: Marcelin Pleynet and James Bishop
During the 1960s and 1970s, a group of writers and artists associated with the influential Parisian review Tel Quel developed …
Notes on the Centre: *Two Decades of American Painting *in Australia, 1967
In 1967 the exhibition Two Decades of American Painting, organised by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, travelled …
Video Commune: Nam June Paik at WGBH-TV, Boston
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the video artist Nam June Paik created his earliest works for broadcast at …
Whatever Happened to the Frontier? Performing Provincialism in Post-War Los Angeles
During the 1950s and 1960s, critics writing about art on America’s West Coast often treated it as provincial. At the …
Editorial
This editorial marks the first in a series of updates about the ways Tate Papers is changing. Co-written by the …
Homage to Bacon
We bring together a mix of writers, museum directors, artists, musicians and filmmakers to pay homage to the legendary artist
The short life of the equal woman: by Christina Kiaer
Remembering the work of Russian female artists under Stalin in the 1930s