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 ...

Developed as part of the Documentation and Conservation of Performance project, the Performance Specification is a document designed to capture written information ...

Bernd and Hilla Becher first began their project of systematically photographing industrial structures in the late 1950s. This paper, first given at a conference at Tate Modern, investigates the ...

In 1886 the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche declared the sublime out of date. A number of artists of early and mid-twentieth century continued to engage with concepts of the sublime, though often in ...

This article examines the sexual imagery of particular paintings by the Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais. It argues that criticism has overlooked the sophisticated poetry of the body in ...

Within Static 2009 (Tate T13425), the shifting distance of the camera lens plays upon the viewer’s familiarity with the iconic Statue of Liberty. As a distant, iconic image, the statue is at once ...

Gordon Matta-Clark (1943–1978), who trained originally as an architect, is best known for his spectacular ‘building cuts’. These have often been seen as an outright rejection of the architectural ...

On display at Tate Britain part of Historic and Modern British Art ...

Art informel is a French term describing a swathe of approaches to abstract painting in the 1940s and 1950s which had in common an improvisatory methodology and ...

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 ...

From art about home life to art that highlights the impact of climate change and pollution on natural habitats What does ‘home’ mean to you? The place where you live? Your family? The objects and ...

This is one of four reports produced by researchers in the project Reshaping the Collectible: When Artworks Live in the Museum. Each offers a perspective from one of four practices that are changing ...