From histories of migration and African decolonisation to the evolution of human civilisation, El Anatsui's innovative work pushes the boundaries of sculpture. This lavish exhibition book accompanies his eagerly anticipated installation for the famed Turbine Hall at Tate Modern.

One of the most distinctive artists working today, El Anatsui is best-known for his cascading metallic sculptures constructed of thousands of recycled bottle-tops articulated with copper wire. Repurposing found materi...

Published to accompany a landmark exhibition of the art of J.M.W. Turner, this publication will highlight Turner's contemporary imagery, the most exceptional and distinctive aspect of his work throughout his career. Rather than making any claims for Turner's protomodernist credentials, it will explore what constituted modernity, and what it meant to be a modern artist, in his lifetime. Turner's career spanned revolution and the Napoleonic War, Empire, the explosion of finance capitalism, the ...

J.M.W. Turner 1775-1851 was perhaps the most prolific and innovative of all British artists. His outstanding watercolours in the National Gallery of Scotland are one of the most popular features of its collection. Bequeathed to the Gallery in 1899 by the distinguished collector Henry Vaughan, they have been exhibited, as he requested, every January for over 100 years. Renowned for their excellent state of preservation, they provide a remarkable overview of many of the most important aspects o...

Part of the Tate Introduction series, this book offers a concise and engaging account of Picasso's life and the key aspects of his prolific career.

Rachel Whiteread single-handedly expanded the parameters of contemporary sculpture with her casts of the outer and inner spaces of familiar objects, sometimes in quiet monochrome, sometimes in vivid jewel-like colour. This book, by writer and editor Charlotte Mullins the first significant survey to examine Whiteread s career to date has been substantially updated with a new chapter on 10 major works, including Tate s Turbine Hall installation Embankmentand Cabin, Whiteread s first permanent p...

Richly illustrated, accessible introduction to the fascinating subject of light in art history, featuring a remarkable range of art from the last 200 years in Tate collections.

In the 1960s and 70s Magdalena Abakanowicz (1930-2017) wove sisal in intense colours to create towering, hanging pieces that radically expanded the field of sculpture and installation art. Known as Abakans, these 'organic environments' carried many meanings and were often large in size, containing entanglements of ropes or dividing spaces. They were spaces to contemplate, to experience. Lavishly illustrated with immersive photography, this beautiful book explores the unique nature of these mo...