
Look Again: Death
Paintings and Portraits
Sean Burns(Author)
Tate Publishing
Published on 13. July 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
48 pages
978-1-84976-865-8 (ISBN)
Description
Death haunts art. It lurks in the shadows of Edward Collier's Still Life as a reminder of our fragile mortality. It conquers all in Francis Bacon's Triptych and Anna Lea Merritt's Love Locked Out. But how has death emerged as such a persistent theme in art history? From intimate responses to allegorical meditations on the fleeting transience of life, Sean Burns explores how a breadth of historical and contemporary artists in Britain's national collection have immortalised death in art.
Look Again is a new series of short books from Tate Publishing, opening up the conversation about British art over the last 500 years, and exploring what art has to tell us about our lives today. Written by leading voices from the worlds of literature, art and culture, each book sheds new light on some of the most well-known, best-loved and thought-provoking artworks in the national collection, and asks us to look again.
Look Again is a new series of short books from Tate Publishing, opening up the conversation about British art over the last 500 years, and exploring what art has to tell us about our lives today. Written by leading voices from the worlds of literature, art and culture, each book sheds new light on some of the most well-known, best-loved and thought-provoking artworks in the national collection, and asks us to look again.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
sewn/stitched
With flaps
Dimensions
Height: 173 mm
Width: 84 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
74 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84976-865-8 (9781849768658)
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Person
Sean Burns is an artist, editor and writer based in London. He is the author of Look Again: Death (2023, Tate Publishing).