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Look Again: The Sea
Series: Look Again
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Look Again is a new series of short books from Tate Publishing, opening up the conversation about British art over the last 500 years and exploring what art has to tell us about our lives today. Written by leading voices from the worlds of literature, art, and culture, each book sheds new light on some of the most well-known, best-loved, and thought-provoking artworks in the national collection, and asks us to look again.
Author Philip Hoare takes us on an exploration of the sea and the way it has provided a deep source of inspiration for artists featured in the Tate collection, from William Blake to Maggi Hambling.
Artists have always seen the sea as a mirror of their anxieties and desires; an endless resource for their creativity and their dreams. Under our human sway, the sea has shifted in meaning, from creation myth to economic wealth, from mystic wonder to modern exploitation.
Look Again: The Sea dives into the breadth of historical and contemporary works in Britain's national collection of art, as well as the beloved literature they have inspired. By reframing them within a social and political perspective, rather than a chronological or art-historical one, prize-winning author Philip Hoare shows how art has continually borne witness to the power and allure of the sea.
Series: Look Again
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Look Again: Faith
Faith is a subject that has shaped the art world in Britain for as long as it has existed. The walls of Tate's galleries exhibit paintings like John Martin's The Last Judgement and The Great Day of His Wrath—both dramatic scenes that foretell apocalyptic destruction and biblical catastrophe. But faith can also exist in the small tender glimpses of hope,...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
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Look Again: Death
Death haunts art. It lurks in the shadows of Edward Collier's Still Life as a reminder of our fragile mortality. It conquers all in Francis Bacon's Triptych and Anna Lea Merritt's Love Locked Out. But how has death emerged as such a persistent theme in art history? From intimate responses to allegorical meditations on the fleeting transience of life, Sean...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Look Again: Strangers
Embarking on dangerous journeys to flee violence and persecution, migrants and refugees arrive on the shores of Britain to seek help and hope. And yet, they become scapegoats, vilified by anti-immigrant rhetoric. Examining the work of artists like Tania Bruguera, Arshile Gorky, and Mona Hatoum, Look Again: Strangers challenges this narrative. It sidesteps the dehumanising language in political depictions of...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Look Again: The Sea
Look Again is a new series of short books from Tate Publishing, opening up the conversation about British art over the last 500 years and exploring what art has to tell us about our lives today. Written by leading voices from the worlds of literature, art, and culture, each book sheds new light on some of the most well-known, best-loved,...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Look Again: Fashion
Look Again is a new series of short books from Tate Publishing, opening up the conversation about British art over the last 500 years, and exploring what art has to tell us about our lives today. Written by leading voices from the worlds of literature, art, and culture, each book sheds new light on some of the most well-known, best-loved,...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Look Again: Girlhood
Experiences of girlhood are shaped by art and visual culture as much as they are represented by them. Claire Marie Healy explores this relationship, guiding us through the making and meaning of girlhood in Britain's national collection of art. She traces the journey of 'the girl' in art, from a silent subject of portraiture to a self-expressive creator of self-portraiture....PaperbackSold Out
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781849768276
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 03 November 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Tate Publishing
Edition: Paperback original
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 108.0mm
Height: 178.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 48
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About the Author
Philip Hoare is the author of nine works of nonfiction, including biographies of Stephen Tennant
and Noël Coward, and the studies, Wilde's Last
Stand and England's Lost Eden. Spike Island was
chosen by W.G. Sebald as his book of the year for
2001. In 2009, Leviathan or, The Whale won the
2009 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction.
It was followed in 2013 by The Sea Inside, and in
2017 by RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR. His new book,
Albert & the Whale led the New York Times to call
the author a 'forceful weather system' of his own,
was 'Art Book' of 2021 for The Observer and the
Sunday Times, and shortlisted for the Folio Prize
and PEN biography prize. Philip is Professor of
Creative Writing at the University of Southampton,
and co-curator, with Angela Cockayne, of the
podcasts www.mobydickbigread.com and
www.ancientmarinerbigread.com which have
received 10 million hits to date.
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