Books written by Tate Gallery Liverpool

Afro-Modern: Journeys Through the Black Atlantic

'Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic' explores the impact of different black cultures from around the Atlantic on art from the early twentieth-century to today. The exhibition takes its...
Robert Gober

"Robert Gober rose to prominence in the mid-1980s and was quickly acknowledged as one of the most significant artists of his generation. In the years since, his reputation has continued...
Stanley Spencer: A Sort of Heaven

Stanley Spencer: A Sort of Heaven
Susan Hiller

This work surveys the ways in which Susan Hiller has worked with ephemeral artefacts to produce art of emotional depth and cultural insight, for example her investigations into the hidden...
Salvador Dalí: A Mythology

Published to accompany a major exhibition of his work, in Liverpool and St Petersburg, this study presents Salvador Dali's engagement with myth, legend and belief. Focusing mainly on the 1930s...
Peter Blake

Peter Blake is a key figure in the history of British Pop Art. A prolific artist, he has utilised a variety of media including painting, drawing, collage, sculpture and print-making....
Peter Blake About Collage

The technique of collage has been incredibly influential in 20th-century art. This publication examines the ways in which the potential of collage has been exploited by a broad range of...
Rachel Whiteread: Shedding Life

Rachel Whiteread's work is based on taking casts from the most commonplace objects. They evoke a combination of familiarity and strangeness, partly because they are not actually casts of the...
Gustav Klimt: Painting, Design and Modern Life

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) remains one of the most popular and influential artists of the 20th century. His ornate, sensual paintings, often charged with eroticism and embellished with gold, have been...
Joseph Beuys: The Revolution is Us

Joseph Beuys: The Revolution is Us
Alberto Giacometti: The Artist's Studio

Alberto Giacometti: The Artist's Studio