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Display: Tate ModernThis display is now closed
This display brings together a group of artists who, emerging in the late 1980s and early 1990s, were concerned to highlight issues of inequality...
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He was a member of the Communist Party and a tireless political activist and campaigner for peace in the post-war period, but how did Pablo Picasso...
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Talks and lectures: Tate BritainWednesday 3 December 2014, 18.30 – 20.00
In this year’s AICA Lecture one of the United-States’ best-known art critics, Roberta Smith, talks about her work. She discusses becoming and...
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ArtworkAugust Sander
Political Prisoner 1943, printed 1990
AL00132August Sander 1876-1964 Political Prisoner 1943, printed 1990 on paper, print Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper ARTIST ROOMS Tate and Nationa...
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ArtworkAugust Sander
Political Prisoner 1943, printed 1990
AL00133August Sander 1876-1964 Political Prisoner 1943, printed 1990 on paper, print Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper ARTIST ROOMS Tate and Nationa...
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ArtworkAugust Sander
Political Prisoner 1943, printed 1990
AL00113August Sander 1876-1964 Political Prisoner 1943, printed 1990 on paper, print Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper ARTIST ROOMS Tate and Nationa...
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ArtworkAugust Sander
Political Prisoner 1943, printed 1990
AL00114August Sander 1876-1964 Political Prisoner 1943, printed 1990 on paper, print Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper ARTIST ROOMS Tate and Nationa...
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Glossary term: Glossary
The art movement political pop emerged in China in the 1980s, and combined western pop art with socialist realism to create art that questioned the...
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Special event: The Tanks at Tate ModernSaturday 24 November 2012
Event Images from Across the board: Politics of Representation
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Identity politics is the term used to describe an anti-authoritarian political and cultural movement that gained prominence in the USA and...
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Exhibition: Tate Liverpool30 June – 18 October 2015
Glenn Ligon (b 1960) is one of the most significant American artists of his generation. Much of his work relates to abstract expressionism and...
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In an art context, pluralism refers to the late 1960s and 1970s when art, politics and culture merged as artists began to believe in a more...
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Artists International Association was an exhibiting society founded in London in 1933, which held exhibitions and events to promote and support...
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Agit-prop is an enterprise set up by the Soviet Communist Party in 1920 intended to control and promote the ideological conditioning of the masses,...
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The Tate Modern display Citizens and States poses a range of possible ways that artists might react to or participate in moments of change. Nina...
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Mexican muralism is the term used to describe the revival of large-scale mural painting in Mexico in the 1920s and 1930s
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Revolutionary alliance of European avant-garde artists, writers and poets formed at a conference in Italy in 1957 (as Internationale Situationiste...
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A form of modern realism imposed in Russia by Stalin following his rise to power after the death of Lenin in 1924, characterised in painting by...
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The Art Workers' Coalition (AWC) was a group of activists who came together in New York in 1969 to promote artists’ rights and to challenge the art...