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The Seventeenth-Century Sublime: Boileau and Poussin
This article summarises the key concerns of Pseudo-Longinus’s On the Sublime, and considers their interest for one of the …
The Sublime Plurality of Worlds: Lucretius in the Eighteenth Century
This paper discusses Lucretian themes in the idea of a ‘cosmic sublime’ in the context of the discourse of the …
Psychosis and the Sublime in American Art: Rothko and Smithson: The Sublime Object
This paper addresses the work of Mark Rothko (1903–1970) and Robert Smithson (1938–1973), and, referring to the philosopher Kant and …
Milton, Lucy Hutchinson, and the Lucretian Sublime: The Sublime Object
ܳپܲ’s De rerum natura is a neglected source for the emergence of the theory and practice of the sublime in …
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 …
The Psychiatric Sublime: The Sublime Object
This paper examines images relating to therapies for mental illness in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Seeking to …
Stubbs, Walpole and Burke: Convulsive Imitation and ‘Truth Extorted’: The Sublime Object
This essay examines the relationship between George Stubbs’s Lion and Horse series of paintings and the redefinition of the sublime …
Tate Online Strategy 2010–12
This strategy describes Tate's web strategy for 2010-12.
Naum Gabo as a Soviet Émigré in Berlin
Naum Gabo’s arrival in Berlin in 1922, which initiated his lifetime emigration from the Soviet Union, has been interpreted as …
Liubov Popova: From Painting to Textile Design
In 1923 the painter Liubov Popova began creating designs for fabric to be manufactured by the First State Textile Printing …
Richard Hamilton’s The annunciation
This article traces Richard Hamilton’s use of photography and digital technologies to subtly undermine verisimilitude in his print The annunciation …
Damien Hirst’s Shark: Nature, Capitalism and the Sublime
Focusing on Damien Hirst’s The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living 1991 which contains a preserved …
William Blake’s 1809 Exhibition
This paper introduces the 1809 London exhibition that William Blake organised of his own works, exploring its high ambition and …
An Alternative National Gallery: Blake’s 1809 Exhibition and the Attack on Evangelical Culture
This essay suggests that Blake’s 1809 exhibition was haunted by the memory of the Irish painter James Barry (1741–1806) and …
Lost in the Crowd: Blake and London in 1809
This article explores why William Blake’s solo exhibition of 1809 has been such an important source for understanding his attitude …
Reasoned Exhibitions: Blake in 1809 and Reynolds in 1813
This paper considers Blake’s 1809 exhibition in the light of the nascent practice of retrospective exhibitions and compares it with …
Surviving Reality: Lee Bontecou’s Worldscapes
This article focuses on American artist Lee Bonteco’s drawing practice during the early 1960s, focusing in particular on Drawing 1961. …
Dust and Doubt: The Deserts and Galaxies of Vija Celmins
This article considers one work on paper by Vija Celmins in the ARTIST ROOMS collection: Untitled (Desert–Galaxy) 1974. In a …
Cinematic Drawing in a Digital Age
Developed in relation to works by Tacita Dean and William Kentridge, this article explores the way in which the arrival …
Merzzeichnung: Typology and Typography
When Kurt Schwitters began making collages in 1918, the initial term he used to describe them was Merzzeichnungen (Merz drawings). …