Tate Modern
Subtitle: the handbook
By: edited by Iwona Blazwick and Simon Wilson.
Contributors: Blazwick, Iwona.; Wilson, Simon, 1942-
Publisher: Tate Gallery Pub.
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Tate Modern (Gallery) -- Catalogs.; Art -- England -- London -- Catalogs.; Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Catalogs.
Genres: Catalogs.
Description: "This book celebrates the opening of Tate Modern, London, and introduces readers to the building, the collection, and the new approach to modern and contemporary art. The gallery presents the twentieth century through the reinterpretation of four classic themes: the nude, landscape, still-life, and history painting. Their re-emergence in modern art as the body, the environment, the everyday, and society, is discussed in four introductory texts and through selected writings. The second half of the book is an A to Z of one hundred key artists in the Tate's international modern collection that are introduced by a team of eleven art historians."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.