Forty Years of Modern Art 1945-1985

Tate

J.M.W. Turner is one of the greatest artists the world has ever known. His output was prolific and astonishingly varied. Focusing on 125 paintings and drawings from the Tate, which owns the world's largest collection of Turner's work, this lavishly illustrated book provides a fresh and lively survey of his genius. Familiar masterpieces are reproduced along with less well-known prints and sheets from sketchbooks; subject matter ranges from landscapes and natural subjects to ancient and modern history; marine subjects; literary illustration; and images of contemporary life. In his essay, David Blayney Brown reveals the paradoxes and contrasts that abound in Turner's life and work: as a painter he looked both backward and forward, bridging the gap between the 18th century and modernism, compelled constantly to reexamine and reinvent his own art, with astonishing success.

Turner: In the Tate Collection

Arts & Photography

Brown, David Blayney

Individual Artists

Thomas Girtin (1775-1802) was one of Britain's greatest landscape painters. In a tragically short career, he developed a technique that revolutionized watercolor painting and produced powerful works, providing one of the cornerstones of Romantic landscape imagery. His talent was such that his friend J.M.W. Turner acknowledged: "If Tom Girtin had lived, I should have starved." 
Published to accompany the first comprehensive overview of Girtin's career for 25 years, this book brings together the most outstanding examples of his work in stunning colorplates. It offers a revaluation of his achievements and a wide-ranging analysis of his working methods and materials, as well as of his relations with patrons, the print trade, and fellow professional artists. This book will restore the reputation of this astonishing painter.

Thomas Girtin and the Art of Watercolor

GREG SMITH

Hamish Fulton (b. 1946) first came to prominence in the late 1960s as part of a distinguished generation of young British artists who were engaged with extending the possibilities of sculpture. Known as a sculptor, photographer, conceptual artist, and land artist, Fulton prefers to characterize himself as a walking artist. His walks have taken him to locations as varied as Japan, the Himalayas, Italy, India, Iceland, and the deserts of Montana, as well as throughout England.This volume, published to accompany an exhibition at Tate Britain in Spring 2002 of new and recent work by Fulton, is lavishly illustrated with an 80-page section of new photographic and text work made by Fulton especially for the book. It also includes an essay by Andrew Wilson tracing the artist's career and influences, an in-depth interview with the artist by the exhibition curator, Ben Tufnell, and contributions by the environmentalist Bill McKibben and mountaineer Doug Scott, whose texts explore issues central to Fulton's art.

Hamish Fulton: Walking Journey

McKibben, Bill

TUFNELL, Ben

WILSON, ANDREW

Scott, Doug

History & Criticism

This illustrated work provides an account of the evolving personal relationship between Matisse and Picasso, and in doing so it challenges the popular notion of intense rivalry between the two artists. The two first met in 1906 when Matisse had achieved recognition for his innovative Fauvist works and Picasso was poised to challenge for the leadership of the avant-garde. Though the pair were never intimate friends they maintained contact for the last twenty years of Matisse's life and their artistic relationship can be addressed through an analysis of a key group of their works. This volume discusses themes of the primitive, prompting differing responses in their art, and their common dependence on the Western figurative tradition. It goes on to explore their parallel development as leading sculptors and their unceasing invention in the field of collage. It further views the impact of their differing working methods, Matisse's reaction to Cubism and Picasso's preoccupation with brilliant colour and decorative pattern.

Interpreting Matisse Picasso

Cowling, Elizabeth

This lavishly illustrated book draws on Tate Britain's unrivaled collections to provide a lively and informative introduction to the story of art in Britain over the last 500 years. Author Richard Humphreys examines works by all the major artists, both in their own right and placed in broader contexts to convey their full richness and beauty.Among the artists whose work is featured in beautiful colorplates are Turner, van Dyck, Hogarth, Constable, and Rossetti; the 20th century is represented by Gwen John, Barbara Hepworth, Francis Bacon, David Hockney, and Gilbert and George, as well Damien Hirst, Chris Ofili, and other leading contemporary artists.

The Tate Britain Companion to British Art

Humphreys, Richard

Marc Quinn first came to prominence as an artist in the early 1990s. His work has encompassed a wide range of media that includes sculpture, drawing, photography, painting and installation to explore issues surrounding the human body, mortality, beauty, science and time. Published to coincide with the exhibition at Tate Liverpool, this book chronicles Marc Quinn's most recent work and also gives some indication about his thoughts and working processes. It features exclusive photography of the exhibition. Quinn's involvement in the publication is reflected in its design and sketchbook style. The book features the artist in conversation with curator and writer Sarah Whitfield as he talks in some detail about the different bodies of work in the exhibition. Tate Liverpool curator Victoria Pomery contributes an essay on the artist.

New Work: Marc Quinn

Pomery, Victoria

Patrick Heron held a unique position in twentieth-century art. As one of the first British artists to embrace abstraction, he introduced a post-war generation to the delights of luminous pure colour, distilling a wide range of influences to create works that convey a pure visual sensation. As a critic he produced a powerful and provocative body of writings, making a forceful case for the importance of contemporary British art. Michael McNay provides a much-needed survey of Heron's life and work, exploring his close and creative relationship with the landscape and light of Cornwall, and his long investigation into the 'colour of colour'. Heron's championing of Cornish artists makes this book an essential addition to the St. Ives Artists series.

St. Ives Artists: Patrick Heron

McNay, Michael

Liverpool, birthplace of the Beatles, is known the world over for its pop music heritage. The continuing popularity of dance and club culture in the city sets the scene for Tate Liverpool's exhibition Remix, which explores the cultural collision between art and music. This book, which accompanies the exhibition, examines the fusion of popular music and art over the past two decades. The influence of music on the work of visual artists has been extensive, often providing inspiration for new forms of visual culture created through experiments that blur the boundaries of both art forms. Many of the groups and musicians in this exhibition have themselves been visual artists and have a direct involvement with the visual culture-album covers, videos, performance projections, etc. -- connected to marketing and performing music.

Remix: Contemporary Art and Pop Music

Wallis, Simon

This new volume investigates how Surrealism developed from a primarily literary movement to one that fused painting, collage, photography, film, and poetry. Beautifully illustrated, the book depicts the work of the artists and writers at the heart of the Surrealist movement in an accessible manner, providing all fans of Surrealism a fresh and intriguing angle.

The Surrealists

Montagu, Jemima

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