In 1886 the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche declared the sublime out of date.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

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 ...

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 ...

Ibrahim El-Salahi is a Sudanese artist who was born in 1930 in Omdurman, Sudan. He currently lives and works in Oxford, England. He combines painting and drawing often using motifs from African, Arab ...

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 ...

Enter a realm where everyday life meets the mystical in this one room exhibition by contemporary artist Bharti Kher. A selection of Kher’s sculptures, paintings and drawings are being shown together ...

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 ...

Join us for a panel discussion on Black British photography Political blackness in photography during the 1970s and 1980s in Britain emerged as a significant cultural response to racial tensions and ...

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

Brighton Beach, with the Chain Pier in the Distance, from the West ...

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 ...

This room explores the friendship and collaborations of the artists Richard Hamilton and Marcel Duchamp in the years 1956 to 1968 During the 1950s, Duchamp’s work was not well known in the UK.