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Nailing one’s colours: Tate Britain’s artist and empire / Hahn, Catherine

Hahn, Catherine	Journal Article
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Taking the view that national art museums should represent the multifarious populations they serve, this article explores racial material in Tate Britain’s high-profile exhibition Artist and Empire: Facing Britain’s Imperial Past (2015). The exhibition gave extensive coverage to two aspects of empire: hybrid fusions and the myth of white heroism, but gave limited attention to colonization as a maximally coercive system built on racist imaginings and abuse. Through cross-examination of the exhibition’s content and absences, I explore whether Tate Britain is setting out the ‘building blocks’ for more diverse practice.

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Racism ; ART ; Empire ; Diversity ; Museums ; Tate Britain

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Window on past conflict: history paintings at tate Britain / Angelis, Emma De

Angelis, Emma De	Article
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Analysing paintings presented by Tate Britain's exhibition Fighting History, Emma De Angelis considers whether history painting can further our understanding of war, especially in today's world. Devices such as the visual fusion of time and space in history painting can facilitate new perspectives and reflections on conflict, and provoke an affective reaction that differs greatly from any scholarly analysis of war past and present.

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War ; Conflict ; Culture ; History Paintings ; Tate Britain ; Past Conflict

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