Tate Modern : the handbook /

"This book celebrates the opening of Tate Modern, London, and introduces readers to the building, the collection, and the new approach to modern and contemporary art. The gallery presents the twentieth century through the reinterpretation of four classic themes: the nude, landscape, still-life,...

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Other Authors: Blazwick, Iwona, Wilson, Simon, 1942-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley [Calif.] : University of California Press, [2000]
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Summary:"This book celebrates the opening of Tate Modern, London, and introduces readers to the building, the collection, and the new approach to modern and contemporary art. The gallery presents the twentieth century through the reinterpretation of four classic themes: the nude, landscape, still-life, and history painting. Their re-emergence in modern art as the body, the environment, the everyday, and society, is discussed in four introductory texts and through selected writings. The second half of the book is an A to Z of one hundred key artists in the Tate's international modern collection that are introduced by a team of eleven art historians."--BOOK JACKET.
Physical Description:245 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0520227697
9780520227699
0520227700 (pbk.)
9780520227705 (pbk.)