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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 …
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 …
Landmark Exhibitions Issue: Introduction
The overlooked field of exhibition histories is discussed by the co-organisers of the Landmark Exhibitions conference in relation to feminist …
Two Exhibition-Related Films by Jef Cornelis: Landmark Exhibitions Issue
This discussion of two films made for television in 1971 by Flemish filmmaker Jef Cornelis brings into relief an underlying …
Francis Bacon: Back to Degas: Rothenstein Lecture 2011
Providing the first focused account of Francis Bacon’s artistic dialogue with Edgar Degas, Martin Hammer argues that the French painter …
The Military-Pastoral Complex: Contemporary Representations of Militarism in the Landscape: Art & Environment
Examining works of contemporary art that have engaged with militarised landscapes, Matthew Flintham reflects on the ruination of outmoded military …
Layered Land: Andy Goldsworthy at Yorkshire Sculpture Park: Art & Environment
Focusing on the long relationship Andy Goldsworthy has had with the landscape of the Bretton Estate, the location of Yorkshire …
Waste to Monument: John Latham’s Niddrie Woman: Art & Environment
John Latham’s Artist Placement Group residency at the Scottish Office’s Development Agency in 1975–6 led to a series of proposals …
Atomic Tourism and False Memories: Cai Guo-Qiang’s The Century with Mushroom Clouds: Art & Environment
Examining Cai Guo-Qiang’s photographic series The Century with Mushroom Clouds, Ben Tufnell explores the work’s connections to American land …
To the Ends of the Earth: Art and Environment: Art & Environment
Introducing the group of articles devoted to the theme of ‘Art & Environment’ in Tate Papers no.17, this essay reflects …
Van Dyck and Tapestry in England
Van Dyck first came to England in 1620, when the Surrey-based Mortlake Manufactory began making tapestries. Simon Turner considers whether …
Re-enacting Art and Travel: Art & Environment
In light of theories of re-enactment, Geoff Quilley argues that the landscape imagery produced by amateur British naval artists on …
Elasticity of Exhibition: Landmark Exhibitions Issue
This paper looks at a number of exhibitions planned and installed by artists from the late 1950s until the present. …
To Dispel a Great Malady: Robinson in Ruins , the Future of Landscape and the Moving Image: Art & Environment
Patrick Keiller’s film Robinson in Ruins was made as part of an AHRC project, ‘The Future of Landscape and the …
Ruins of the Future: Art & Environment
Charting the genealogy of Patrick Keiller’s Robinson in Ruins, Brian Dillon considers the film’s subjects and themes in terms …
The Roman Campagna Revisited: Art & Environment
Richard Wrigley reconnects the Roman campagna – a landscape endowed with considerable artistic significance – with its troubled history as …
Ten Miles on Exmoor: Art & Environment
Suggesting that Richard Long’s A Ten Mile Walk England is as much concerned with boundaries as it is with open …
To Be Continued: Periodic Exhibitions ( dOCUMENTA , for Example): Landmark Exhibitions Issue
In this paper the author reflects on the early history of the dOCUMENTA exhibitions held every five years in Kassel, …
‘Remembering Exhibitions’: From Point to Line to Web: Landmark Exhibitions Issue
The author discusses the proliferation of the new genre of ‘remembering exhibitions’ as part of the recent interest in the …
Lessons Learned: Landmark Exhibitions Issue
The artist Hans Haacke presents a career overview of his involvement with recurring exhibitions, from documenta 2 (1959) via the …