This Spring, Tate Modern will celebrate the provocative and boundary-pushing career of Leigh Bowery - one of the most fearless and original artists of the 20th century. In his short but extraordinary ...

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 ...

This is one of four reports produced by researchers in the project Reshaping the Collectible: When Artworks Live in the Museum. Each offers a perspective from one of four practices that are changing ...

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 ...

In 1886 the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche declared the sublime out of date.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

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 sublime in art, it has often been suggested, starts with Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry (1757). Before this, so the conventional narrative goes, the sublime was a notion that applied only to ...

Suspended, collapsed, stacked, wrapped or folded, the works of Phyllida Barlow spring from an interrogation of some of the most fundamental aspects of sculpture: its physical attributes and its ...

Harun Farocki (1944-2014) was a pioneering filmmaker and theorist. He made more than 90 films ranging from experimental documentaries to large-scale installations. His work often explores themes of ...

Mildred, Tate’s art-loving cat, wants you to help her find 6 images of artworks placed around the inner quay of the Royal Albert Dock. Collect your free Art Trail booklet from Tate Liverpool + RIBA ...

Longinus, ‘Longinus on the Sublime’, trans. by W.H. Fyfe and Donald Russell, in Jeffrey Henderson (ed.), Aristotle, Poetics; Longinus, on the Sublime; Demetrius ...

Robert Bevan and Stanislawa de Karlowska settle at 14 Adamson Road in the Swiss Cottage area of London. Albert Rutherston contributes two pictures to the New English Art Club and meets Walter Sickert ...