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 ...

This paper examines affinities between the Bauhaus-indebted instructional methods and practices of Josef Albers and the sculpture of Eva Hesse, his student at Yale University. The author argues that ...

Examining the idea of being ‘machine-like’ and its impact on the practice of automatic writing, this article charts a history of automatism from the late nineteenth century to the present day, ...

Shown for the first time in the UK, experience Human Mutator by Artist and Goldsmiths Professor William Latham, created with mathematician and programmer Stephen Todd. The work captures your movements ...

Andrew Cummings reports on a talk by the artist Tehching Hsieh, featuring a response from Amelia Groom (editor of Time in the Documents of Contemporary Art publication series) and a discussion ...

Bernd and Hilla Becher have spent their life together photographing the unintended beauty that can be found in industrial structures. Michael Collins profiles the winners of 2002’s prestigious erasmus ...

The open access repository pilot project is one among many initiatives being undertaken by Tate to make its research more visible, accessible and reusable both within and outside the gallery. 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In 1886 the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche declared the sublime out of date.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 ...

When Kurt Schwitters began making collages in 1918, the initial term he used to describe them was Merzzeichnungen (Merz drawings). This article considers the place of drawing in the development of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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