Contemporary artists have extended the vocabulary of the sublime by looking back to earlier traditions and by engaging with aspects of modern society. They have located the sublime in not only the ...

The Camden Town Group was composed of sixteen artists, judged by an inner core to be ‘the best and the most promising of the day’. Controversially, women were not allowed to join, though they formed ...

Fig.2 John Constable The Cornfield 1826 National Gallery, London Born into a prosperous family in the village of East Bergholt, Suffolk, Constable’s early display of aptitude and passion for painting ...

Head to the Terrace Bar for sets all night, plus enjoy Tate’s own brews, cocktails, and craft beers on tap. Shown for the first time in the UK, experience Human Mutator by Artist and Goldsmiths ...

In 1886 the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche declared the sublime out of date.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 ...

From ‘The Tenth Plague of Egypt’ exhibited 1802, JMW Turner, N00470, Tate Collection ...

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 ...

Sze incorporates objects designed for human scale, such as tools for installing sculpture such as a ladder and a spirit level. Other components, like the tiny wooden bridges, could imply a miniature ...

In 1973 the curator David H. Katzive wrote: ‘If three different people were asked how they responded to the portraits of Barkley Hendricks … it would be entirely possible to have one person reply that ...

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 ...

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 ...