Books from Tate

Hamish Fulton: Walking Journey
By Bill McKibben, Andrew Wilson, Ben Tufnell
His walks have taken him to locations as varied as Japan, the Himalayas, Italy, India, Iceland, and the deserts of Montana, as well as throughout England.This volume, published to accompany an exhibition at Tate Britain in Spring 2002 of ...
Anteaters to Zebras
By Alan Fletcher
A playful introduction to the alphabet, created by one of the most respected figures in graphic design, presents a series of brightly colored animals illustrating the letters of the alphabet.
Tate Watercolor Manual
By Tony Smibert, Joyce H. Townsend
A practical guide to watercolor painting and an informative history, covering technique, equipment, general theory, painting plein air, and conservation.
Susan Hiller
By Ann Gallagher
Comprehensive and extensively illustrated, accompanying a major solo exhibition, this book surveys the breadth of Hiller's long and fruitful career to date.
Paul McCarthy at Tate Modern: Block Head and Daddies Big Head
By Sarah Glennie, Frances Morris
A unique record of an artistic event, Paul McCarthy at Tate Modern includes a new interview with the artist, brand new dramatic installation photography, working drawings and models, and essays that will place this incredible work in the ...
Tate Modern Artists: Peter Blake
By Peter Blake, Natalie Rudd
... touring the United States Paintings from the hos and 70s : Peter Blake , Patrick Caulfield and Howard Hodgkin , Waddington Galleries , London Collage - The Pasted - Paper Revolution , Crane Kalman Gallery , London Pop Art U.S./U.K .
Holbein in England
By Susan Foister
Susan Foister, a leading expert on Holbein, considers the way in which England both influenced and was influenced by the artist and his work.
Lost Art: Missing Artworks of the Twentieth Century
By Jennifer Mundy
With work by Marcel Duchamp, Wassily Kandinsky, Frida Kahlo, Joseph Beuys, John Baldessari, Rachel Whiteread and Lucian Freud, this is a lively look at a often little considered aspect of contemporary art.
Tate British Artists: William Blake
By William Vaughan
For some he is an inspiring genius, a source of creativity and insight; for others he is an unsettling eccentric. William Vaughan explores the contradictions that stand in the way of an easy understanding of this artist's work.
J.M.W. Turner: The Making of a Master
By Ian Warrell
With essays from key academics and a detailed biography, this is a welcome addition to the literature on this great artist.
Standing in the Sun: A Life of J.M.W. Turner
By Anthony Bailey
As well as unearthing fresh material and reappraising existing information, he has looked at many of Turner's paintings and sketches at first hand, but this has always been with the aim of reassessing the man rather than the works.
@earth
By Peter Kennard
This book contains no words: instead it tells its story in the universal language of photomontage, long the favoured medium of radical artists.
A Lion in Paris
By Beatrice Alemagna
Bored by his rural life in the savannah, a lion seeks excitement and opportunity in the City of Light, where he is surprised that even his roaring does not cause a stir while visiting Montmartre, the Eiffel Tower and the busy underground ...
Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience
By William Blake
This book presents Blake as a visual artist for the 21st century.
Blind Spots: Jackson Pollock
By Gavin Delahunty
Fifty years after the appearance of his groundbreaking essay, Michael Fried has now produced a thorough reappraisal of the works especially for this publication.
Burne-Jones
By Alison Smith
Accompanying a major exhibition of Burne-Jones's work at Tate Britain, this book looks at what was distinctive about Burne-Jones's art, and charts the course through which he emerged from being an outsider, to being revered as one of the ...
Tate Movements in Modern Art: Pop Art
By David McCarthy
Examines the development of pop art from its roots to its rise in popularity, and discusses how it was once considered outside the limits of art but is now celebrated in the Western world.
The Museum of Me
By Emma Lewis
A little girl makes her way to different museums, learning about them and the exciting things they contain, but soon realizes that her favorite museum of all is waiting for her at home.
The Turner Prize
By Virginia Button
Since 1984 the Turner Prize has been instrumental in bringing about a sea-change in the attitude and awareness of the public to contemporary art. No other prize has provoked so...
Tate Modern Artists: Jeff Wall
By Craig Burnett
Born in 1946 in Vancouver, Canada, Jeff Wall is one of the most intriguing and influential artists working in photography today.