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(P/B) Strangers
Writer Ismail Einashe offers a poignant exploration into the themes of migration and belonging - and the plight of finding shelter in a foreign land. Embarking on dangerous journeys to flee violence and persecution, migrants and refugees arrive on shores of Britain to seek aid. And yet, they have become scapegoats, vilified as an invasion. Examining works from Britain's national collection of art, Look Again: Strangers revisits this narrative to reveal the experience of the refugee, stranded from their home and loved ones in strange lands....
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(P/B) Isaac Julien
FEATURING AUGMENTED REALITY FUNCTIONALITY: Simply open the Isaac Julien App and hold your device over the images where the AR symbol appears to experience this innovative extra dimension. An engrossing book about one of the most important and pioneering contemporary artists and filmmakers working today. Featuring strikingly beautiful reproductions of these extraordinarily powerful works, this exhibition catalogue enriches our understanding and appreciation of a remarkable artist. Celebrated for his compelling lyrical films and video art in...
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(H/B) Motherhood
Featuring fifty artworks in a variety of media, curator Ann Coxon reveals a complex diversity of responses to motherhood in this powerful journey through the past 200 years of art. Depictions of motherhood are ever present in Western art, yet rarely questioned or challenged. We may shy away from a subject that could be seen as sentimental or overly associated with idealistic constructs of femininity, nurture and care. Whether we are mothers ourselves, or whether we bring or nurture life in a wider sense, we all have some understanding of m...
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(P/B) Girlhood
Hanging on the walls of galleries around the world are hundreds of works titled Portrait of A Girl. But what is the purpose of a Portrait of A Girl? What should she do and who is she for? These are the questions that writer Claire Marie Healy explores in Girlhood. Expressions of girlhood are shaped by art and visual culture as much as they are represented by them. Claire Marie Healy explores this relationship, guiding us through the making and meaning of girlhood in Britain's national collection of art. She traces the journey of 'the girl'...
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(P/B) Claudia Andujar
For over five decades Claudia Andujar has devoted her life to photographing and protecting the Yanomami, one of Brazil's largest indigenous groups. Attempting to translate visually the shamanic culture of the Yanomami, she experiments with a variety of photographic techniques to create visual distortions, streaks of light and saturated colours, imbuing her images with a feeling of the otherworldly. The Tate Photography Series is a celebration of photography by artists in the Tate collection, presenting the work of some of the most signific...
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(P/B) Death
Artist and writer Sean Burns explores the nature of death and its tangled relationships with life and love as depicted in art. Death haunts art. It lurks in the shadows of Edward Collier's Still Life as a reminder of our fragile mortality. It overcomes all in Francis Bacon's Triptych and Anna Lea Merritt's Love Locked Out. From personal responses to general meditations on the fleeting transience of life, Sean Burns looks at the breadth of historical and contemporary works in Britain's national collection to explore how artists have immorta...
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(P/B) Faith
Award-winning author, poet and podcaster Derek Owusu asks: what does faith mean and what does it look like in art? Faith is a subject that has shaped the art world in Britain for as long as it has existed. The walls of Tate's galleries exhibit paintings like John Martin's The Last Judgement and The Great Day of His Wrath - both dramatic scenes that foretell apocalyptic destruction and biblical catastrophe. But faith can also exist in the small tender glimpses of hope, of love and joy. Responding to works in Britain's national collection of...
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(P/B) Richard Mosse
Richard Mosse is an Irish conceptual documentary photographer living and working in New York. The focus of this volume, Broken Spectre 2018-20, is his most ambitious project to date. Comprising film and photography made over three years spent in the Amazon rainforest it has been described by the Economist as 'Powerful and urgent - a reminder of art's ability of shift perceptions.' The Tate Photography Series is a celebration of photography by artists in the Tate collection, presenting the work of some of the most significant photographers ...
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(P/B) Lieko Shiga
Lieko Shiga makes intimate portraits, set among mystical landscapes and interiors, integrating her personal experiences with grander mythologies into surreal and fantastical images. This volume focuses on her series Rasen Kaigan (Spiral Coast) 2008-12, photographs of the village of Kitakama in Japan before and after the devastating 2011 tsunami, capturing the spirit and history of the place and its people. The Tate Photography Series is a celebration of photography by artists in the Tate collection, presenting the work of some of the most ...
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(H/B) AUTUMN
The latest in our series of books exploring the seasons, Autumn examines of the most beautiful, transformative and amusing expressions of the autumn season using works drawn from Tate's collection. Divided into key themes - 'Fields of Gold', 'A Bountiful Harvest', 'Leisure', 'Symbolism', 'Bump in the Night' and 'Abstraction' - this little book considers how the traditional season of harvest and falling leaves has influenced artists over centuries. Works of art - including paintings, drawings, sculptures, illustrations and installations - ...
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(H/B) THE ART OF PRINT
Prints have played a unique and important role in the history of art and image, and this engaging book explores the numerous ways artists have embraced printmaking over the course of three centuries. William Hogarth, George Stubbs, William Blake, J.M.W. Turner, Pablo Picasso, Barbara Hepworth, Andy Warhol, Lucian Freud, Bridget Riley, Paula Rego, William Kentridge and Kara Walker are among the leading artists for whom printmaking has been an important and experimental part of their practice- yet printmaking remains a somewhat mysterious to...
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(H/B) GRANDMA'S HOUSE
The long-awaited new book from best-selling illustrator and designer Alice Melvin features highly detailed illustrations that will absorb readers of all ages. Cut-out windows and gate folds transform the book into a house to be explored. Grandma's House is a story about a little girl who often visits her grandmother's house where everything is different, but always the same. Children will love exploring the rooms in Grandma's House, peering through its cutout pages from one room to the next and journeying high up into the fold-out attic in...
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(P/B) HILMA AF KLINT& PIET MONDRIAN: FORMS OF LIFE
Featuring works never before seen in the UK, this paperback exhibition book will elucidate and invigorate our understanding of two ground-breaking artists and will be sure to get synapses firing. Although they never met, Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian shared a deep dynamic connection to the natural world and began their careers as landscape painters. For them, science and mysticism were not exclusive practices, but part of the same essential framework for understanding the life forces around them. Both artists engaged with science and es...
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(H/B) THE MAKING OF RODIN
In line with new thinking around Rodin, this beautifully illustrated hardback exhibition book focuses specifically on the artist's use of plaster, a material which was crucial to his process, but also demonstrates his interest in creating sculptures that are never finished, always becoming. United by their whiteness, an array of fragile, experimental and unique pieces are explored in the catalogue alongside alternative aspects of some of Rodin's signature works, and a selection of the artist's drawings and watercolours - the fluidity and d...
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(P/B) A LITTLE FEMINIST HISTORY OF ART
Exploring themes such as gender inequality, sexuality, domestic life, personal experiences and the female body, A Little Feminist History of Art is a celebration of one of the most ambitious, influential and enduring artistic movements to emerge from the twentieth century. This book is a short and pithy introduction to some of the most important artworks borne out of this movement. Fifty outstanding works - from the late 1960s to the present - reflect women's lives and experience, as well as the changing position of women artists, and reve...
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(P/B) FEMINISM
This book is a powerful new interpretation of British art from an intersectional feminist perspective, from one of Britain's greatest writers. Bernadine Evaristo's Feminism is part of the Tate Britain: Look Again series of books exploring the National Collection of British Art, reframing the collection in new ways, relevant to today's audiences. In her own words, Evaristo says of the book: 'Art museums have long drawn me into their spaces. The infinite possibilities of the language of art opens me up to methods of communication quite unlik...
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(H/B) SUMMER
Following Winter and Spring, this elegant gift book captures the hazy beauty, warmth and longer days of summer, illustrated with artworks from Tate's collection. Summer, both languid and fiery, has never ceased to be a source of inspiration. In Summer, works of art - including paintings, drawings, photographs, illustrations and installations - are punctuated by brief captions offering additional information about the art, artists and their subjects. Divided into key themes - 'Return of Helios', 'The Green Tide', 'Sweltering bodies', 'Windi...
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(H/B) VISIONS OF THE OCCULT
The first major survey of the occult collection of artworks, letters, objects and ephemera in the Tate Archive. Revealing over 150 unseen esoteric and mystical pieces, never before seen by the public and giving a new understanding to the artists in the Tate collection and the history and practice of the occult. The first major survey of the occult collection of artworks, letters, objects and ephemera in the Tate Archive. Revealing over 150 unseen esoteric and mystical pieces, never before seen by the public and giving a new understanding t...
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(P/B) A BIGGER SPLASH
A Bigger Splash will take a new look at the dynamic relationship between performance and painting from 1950 to the present day. Taking its title from David Hockney's iconic 1967 image of a Californian swimming pool and Jack Hazan's docu-fiction film about Hockney's life, it will bring together a range of key works by artists including Yves Klein, Jackson Pollock, Cindy Sherman and Karen Kilimnik. Moving through half a century of work in painting, video and photography, and including archival and documentary material, this book will show ho...
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(P/B) RADICAL LANDSCAPES
Throughout the twentieth-century artists have responded to the landscape in emotional, physical and political ways: exploring themes of belonging to the land by interrogating the relationship between landscape history and identity, the enclosure or militarisation of land, to artists creating works that harness or dramatise natural earth processes. As the custodian of the national collection of British art, Tate's climate emergency declaration points to a wider concern and care for the environment that underpins the themes in Radical Landsc...
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