Fig.2 John Constable The Cornfield 1826 National Gallery, London Born into a prosperous family in the village of East Bergholt, Suffolk, Constable’s early display of aptitude and passion for painting ...

Contemporary artists have extended the vocabulary of the sublime by looking back to earlier traditions and by engaging with aspects of modern society. They have located the sublime in not only the ...

Suspended, collapsed, stacked, wrapped or folded, the works of Phyllida Barlow spring from an interrogation of some of the most fundamental aspects of sculpture: its physical attributes and its ...

Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry (1757) connected the sublime with experiences of awe, terror and danger. Burke saw nature as the most sublime object, capable ...

This Spring, Tate Modern will celebrate the provocative and boundary-pushing career of Leigh Bowery - one of the most ...

The exhibition’s title ‘Walk the House’ is drawn from a Korean expression referring to the hanok – a house that could ...

This project will examine art produced in relation to the HIV and AIDS epidemic in Britain from 1987 to 1996. The art historian Simon Watney argued that British governmental policies and their ...

Tate Library Cataloguer Andrey Lazarev explores the life and work of Konstantin Rotov and Boris Efimov, two popular cartoonists represented in the world’s largest Soviet art and design collection, now ...

Since the 1960s, and, more significantly, following the opening of Tate Modern in 2000, and subsequently the Tanks in 2012, a large number of works has entered the Tate collection for which ...

Painted by American abstract expressionist artist Norman Lewis in 1950, Cathedral (Tate L03741; fig.1) is an abstract painting featuring a complex arrangement of black lines and marks that are ...

When Vanessa Bell (1879–1961) took stock of her work towards the end of her life, she drew up an inventory that spanned some fifty years of painting and applied art.1 Her style had ranged widely, from ...