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Han Yajuan 韩娅娟
As part of the post-1978 generation, Han Yajuan (born 1980) is concerned with China’s socio-cultural transformations and new materialistic trends. …
‘A Summing Up of All I Have Ever Thought’: Adrian Stokes’s ‘In Short’ (1942) and his Other Writings of the Period
The intertextual links between Stokes’s unpublished essay ‘In Short’ (1942) and his other writings of the period justify his own …
George Elgar Hicks’s Woman’s Mission and the Apotheosis of the Domestic
Tracing the evolution of the domestic in English cultural discourse over the first half of the nineteenth century, this paper …
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 …
Wild Geese Over the Mountains: Melodrama and the Sublime in the English Imaginary 1933–9: The Sublime Object
The paper traces the frequency with which familiar tropes of the sublime are used in the writing and painting of …
‘No Continuing City’: John Constable, John Britton and Views of Urban History
This article explores the place of urban subjects in works by the nineteenth-century artist John Constable, who is generally known …
Hatchings: Technique as Motif
Tate Research In Focus project on Dancers on a Plane 1980–1 by Jasper Johns
Gothic Cathedrals from Romanticism to Modernism: Images and Ideas
Taking as its starting point John Constable’s Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows exhibited 1831, this paper considers what factors made …
Subjects and meaning in Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows
Revolutionary in his approach to landscape but conservative in his approach to life: discover some of the themes that inspired …
Exhibition Guide: John Piper
Find out more about our exhibition at Tate Liverpool
It's all true: The World as a Stage II
Co-curators of the 黑料社 exhibition, ask some of the participating artists about its?themes
Domes for doomsday: Etc. Essay
The enduring legacy of Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic domes
The scene is set: Tate Britain New Displays I
Several displays this summer explore ways in which ideas surrounding performance have come to occupy a defining place in art …
The aesthetics of documentary
‘Documentary is intrinsically aesthetic,’ argues Mark Cousins, ‘it is as much about shots and cuts, structure and rhythm as …
Women in Revolt!: A Living Canvas
With Christine Binnie, Jennifer Binnie, Wilma Johnson and Lucy Whitman
Tate Britain visual story
A step-by-step visual and written guide to help you plan your visit
Rethinking Geometric Abstraction
Nadia Radwan explores how mathematical and mystical principles inspired the geometrical abstract work of three artists
Voice and Breath
Katrina Nzegwu reviews ‘Voice and Breath’, a two-night programme of contemporary artistic practices working at the intersection of performance, poetry …
‘The Dustbin of History’: Sultan and Mandel’s Evidence
Tate Research In Focus project on Evidence 1977 by Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel
Not-Archaeology: Freud and Hiller as Collectors
Tate Research In Focus project on From the Freud Museum 1991–6 by Susan Hiller