Ed Atkins

Name: Ed Atkins
Brand: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
SKU: 9781849769358
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Ed Atkins accompanies a major exhibition at Tate Britain, running from 2 April to 25 August 2025. This career-spanning publication showcases a collection of paintings, writings, embroideries, and drawings, alongside Atkins's renowned moving-image works presented in large-scale installations. For over a decade, Ed Atkins has been... Read More

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Ed Atkins accompanies a major exhibition at Tate Britain, running from 2 April to 25 August 2025. This career-spanning publication showcases a collection of paintings, writings, embroideries, and drawings, alongside Atkins's renowned moving-image works presented in large-scale installations.

For over a decade, Ed Atkins has been creating videos and animations that explore the narrowing gap between representation and embodied experience. By using his own desires, experiences, and body as a model, Atkins's works engage with contemporary technologies of representation, critically examining their impact on images and our self-perception.

Troubled by melancholy, yet often infused with humour, his works juxtapose the immateriality of digital life with the tactile world of craft and touch. They serve as allegories for profound experiences of loss, intimacy, and love.

This ambitious publication offers a radical overview of Atkins's career, featuring a wide array of paintings, writings, embroideries, and drawings in addition to the moving-image works for which he is best known. Essays by leading scholars, authors, and curators, along with previously unpublished behind-the-scenes photographs and a curated selection of new drawings, collectively examine Atkins's practice. They ask the question: what kind of realism is at stake here?

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781849769358

Publisher: Tate Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 03 April 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Tate Publishing

Contributors:

Text by Jamie Stevens
Text by Ben Lerner
Text by Kathryn Scanlan
Edited by Nathan Ladd
Edited by Polly Staple
Text by Hal Foster
General editor Emilia Will
Designed by HIT Studio
Producer Roanne Marner

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 265.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 224

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Nathan Ladd is Curator, Contemporary Art, at Tate Britain. Polly Staple is former Director of Collection, British Art at Tate. Hal Foster is an American art critic and historian and has written widely on postmodernism, the avant-garde and aesthetic theory. He is Professor in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. Ben Lerner is an American poet, novelist and critic. He is the author of several full-length poetry collections including Art, Mean Free Path and Angle of Yaw. Kathryn Scanlan is an American award-winning author. She is best known for her works The Dominant Animal, Aug 9 – Fog and Kick the Latch. Jamie Stevens is a psychotherapist.