Tate Papers
Tate Papers
Tate Papers
Tate Papers is an online research journal that publishes scholarly articles on British and modern international art, and on museum practice today. These areas reflect the breadth of Tate’s collection, exhibition programme and activities, but articles do not need to refer specifically to Tate or to works in its collection to be deemed suitable for submission to the journal. Leading specialists from around the world contribute to Tate Papers, as do researchers working at Tate, and the journal aims to showcase a range of disciplinary approaches to the study of art and museums.
To ensure the journal maintains the highest standards of scholarship all articles are subjected to a rigorous ‘double blind’ peer review process conducted by specialists. Articles published in Tate Papers are deemed by UK research councils to be suitable for submission to the Research Excellence Framework.
Occasionally the journal also publishes Tate strategy documents and reports. These are not peer reviewed but are included in the journal as they offer information on and insights into the work of museums today.
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Item type:Journal article, Weathering the Storm: Ben Enwonwu’s Biafrascapes and the Crisis in the Nigerian Postcolony(2018)Lecznar, MatthewThis article appraises Nigerian artist Ben Enwonwu’s contribution to postcolonial modernism in Nigeria through an analysis of his artistic responses to the Nigeria-Biafra war (1967–70). It argues that Enwonwu’s varied ‘Biafrascapes’, which include portraits, landscapes and paintings featuring mythopoetic imagery, reflect his struggle to ethically convey the conflict’s complex realities and legacies. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, Via della Fontanella 4: John Gibson’s Workshop in Rome(2018)Frasca-Rath, AnnaThe studio of John Gibson was one of the largest workshops in Rome during the artist’s lifetime, serving as both a tourist attraction and a meeting place for illustrious visitors. Surprisingly, there is no known visual documentation of it or research dedicated to the studio itself. This paper reconstructs in detail the workshop and Gibson’s business practice through the examination of source material and the analysis of contemporary literary accounts. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, The Value of Values: Reflections on Tate Exchange(2018)Cutler, AnnaThis paper aims to explore the frames of practice that were constructed or improvised in Tate Exchange over its first year, and to assess what they can tell us about the benefits, opportunities, problems and complications of creating an open participatory programme of activity and experimentation in the art museum. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, ‘Men thinking, and women tranquil’: John Gibson’s Portraiture Practice(2018) - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, Pacing the Cell: Walking and Productivity in the Work of Bruce Nauman(2016)Burgon, RuthAfter graduating from art school in the late 1960s Bruce Nauman found himself pacing his studio, unsure how to produce work as a professional artist. Out of this practice arose several films and videos recording these performances of studio pacing. This paper draws upon Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish (1975, translated into English 1977) to shed light upon the aesthetic of confinement and incarceration found in Nauman’s use of the walking body in this early work. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, ‘Marx on the Wall’: Muralism and Anglo-American Exchange during the 1930s(2017)Patterson, JodyThis article explores English artists’ support for socially engaged public mural painting during the 1930s in relation to international developments, particularly those in the United States. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, Commitment and Desire in Sharon Hayes’s Ricerche: three 2013(2016)Abse Gogarty, LarneThis article examines Sharon Hayes’s video work Ricerche: three 2013 and the way it represents and mediates the often-painful psychic processes of group formation, in this case propelled by internal and external social pressures. Drawing upon the work of British psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion and the philosopher Iris Marion Young, the essay analyses the artwork’s exploration of ‘womanhood’ as the locus of collective subjectivity and political agency. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, John Gibson’s Friendship with Charles Eastlake and its Importance in Securing Gibson’s Reputation in London(2018)Avery-Quash, SusannaThis article traces the fifty-year friendship between John Gibson and the artist and writer Charles Eastlake. It focuses on their views on sculptural theory and practice, how Eastlake helped to secure Gibson’s reputation in London, and the impact their friendship had on the development of several British art institutions. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, Diffractive Analysis: Embodied Encounters in Contemporary Artistic Video Practice(2018)Sayal-Bennett, AmbaThis paper details how diffractive analysis, a practice-based research methodology combining methods from art practice, art history and cultural studies, can be used to understand the role of bodily experience and affect in the work of contemporary video artists. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Journal article, ‘A Wistful Dream of Far-Off Californian Glamour’: David Sylvester and the British View of American Art(2017)Finch, JamesDavid Sylvester’s criticism from the 1950s and 1960s combined enthusiasm for the vitality of new American art with ambivalence about its influence on British artists. This essay investigates Sylvester’s complex attitude towards American art through his writing, broadcasting and artist interviews.