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Victorian Eclecticism
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 ¡
The Arctic Fantasies of Edwin Landseer and Briton Riviere: Polar Bears, Wilderness and Notions of the Sublime
Nineteenth-century images of the Arctic suggest that the sublime lost its religious and moral dimensions. While Frederic Church¡¯s painting Icebergs ¡
Yin Xiuzhen ÒüÐãÕä
Yin Xiuzhen (born 1963) works primarily in installation, but also painting and other media. As one of the most established ¡
The Painting: Making and Meaning
The Separateness of Things, Victor Burgin
In 1986 Victor Burgin made a series of photographic works based on Edward Hopper's painting Office at Night 1940 featuring ¡
Iconic Portraits: Revising the Canon
We are here: Photographing Britain
To coincide with Tate Britain¡¯s photographic survey of Britain¡¯s social history, Tate Etc. asked a selection of writers, curators and ¡
The Painting and the Frame
Paintings on Canvas: Lining and Alternatives
This paper catalogues major changes in attitude during the last thirty years to conservation practice for the treatment of degraded ¡
William Hogarth at Tate
The story of art in this country often begins with William Hogarth, who died in late October 1764. Satirist, printmaker, ¡
From, At and After the Freud Museum
The perception of symmetry
Michael Bird on notions of how symmetry, the Doppelg?nger, duality and mirror images have played a part in the way ¡
Image/ word: Poets and visual artists
¡®The Process of Drawing is like Writing a Diary: It's a Nice Way of Thinking About Time Passing¡¯: Rachel Whiteread
To coincide with Tate Britain¡¯s exhibition of the artist¡¯s drawings, as well as the objects from her personal collection that ¡
I've never painted an abstract picture in my life: Howard Hodgkin in conversation
He grew up in a home full of Omega Workshop objects, before being evacuated to New York during the Second ¡
A Technical Study of Picasso¡¯s Construction Still Life 1914
This paper explores Picasso¡¯s approach to sculptural materials during the cubist years through a close examination of his 1914 construction ¡
Women, War and Social Change
The Painting
Staring into the contemporary abyss: The contemporary sublime
In the early eighteenth century Joseph Addison described the notion of the sublime as something that ¡®fills the mind with ¡