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‘Truth of Character from Truth of Feeling’: William Hazlitt, ‘Gusto’ and the Linguistic History of Writing on Art
Adapting and applying speech act theories of language use, this paper offers a new understanding of the innovative import of …
Artist Versus Teacher: The Problem of David Bomberg’s Pedagogical Legacy
The British artist David Bomberg’s parallel activities of teaching and painting during his later career are often treated as oppositional. …
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 …
To Be Continued: Periodic Exhibitions ( dOCUMENTA , for Example): Landmark Exhibitions Issue
In this paper the author reflects on the early history of the dOCUMENTA exhibitions held every five years in Kassel, …
Figure and Landscape: Barbara Hepworth’s Phenomenology of Perception
Barbara Hepworth’s development of the figure in landscape theme to which she turned increasingly after moving to St Ives in …
Mira Schendel’s Gesture: On Art in Vilém Flusser’s Thought, with ‘Mira Schendel’ by Flusser
In his theory of communication, philosopher and writer Vilém Flusser (1920–1991) referred to art often, yet unsystematically. This article proposes …
Hyundai Commission:: Cecilia Vicuña: Brain Forest Quipu
Delve deeper into the 2022 Turbine Hall commission
A Belated ‘Breakthrough’ to Abstraction
In Focus study by AnnMarie Perl on Meryon 1960–1 by Franz Kline, a Tate Research publication
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 …
Madame Zborowska and Portrait of a Student: A Case Study of Two Paintings Not Included in Ambrogio Ceroni’s Modigliani Publication of 1970
Two of Modigliani’s portraits made between 1918 and 1919 were not included in the most widely accepted catalogue of the …
Lost and Found? Hamad Butt at Tate
This article constructs a ‘pre-history’ of °Õ²¹³Ù±ð’s acquisition of Hamad Butt’s final major installation work, Familiars. Taking into account …
Face-Off in Weimar Culture: The Physiognomic Paradigm, Competing Portrait Anthologies, and August Sander’s Face of Our Time
August Sander’s photobook Face of Our Time is discussed in relation to interest in physiognomy in Weimar Germany. Much of …
Biopolitical Effigies: The Volatile Life-Cast in the Work of Paul Thek and Lynn Hershman Leeson
In the late 1960s and early 1970s American artists Paul Thek and Lynn Hershman Leeson independently created wax effigies and …
Frank Bowling: Material Explorations
This paper establishes a technical art history of the paintings of Frank Bowling and chronicles materials and techniques used by …
The Value of Values: Reflections on Tate Exchange
This paper aims to explore the frames of practice that were constructed or improvised in Tate Exchange over its first …
‘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 …
‘Layers of Looking’: Changing Surfaces in the Paintings of Gary Hume
This article explores issues of change in the high gloss surfaces of four of Gary Hume’s paintings: Incubus 1991, Water …
Learning through the Acquisition and Display of Works by Ima-Abasi Okon: Enacting Radical Hospitality through Deliberate Slowness
As part of the research project Reshaping the Collectible: When Artworks Live in the Museum, practice-based research was undertaken in …
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 …
Where Theory Belongs: Four Ways to Experience a Seminar in Contemporary Art
Exploring how the format of the seminar as used in contemporary art education is developing, and the social, economic and …