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The Mongrel Tate Collection
The Tate's collection Mongrelised into its own past and present
with the mud, skin and scabs of the Thames. |
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Mongrel Tate Britain
The home of 500 years of tasty babes, luxury goods, own goals
and psychological props of the British social elite. Exhibitions
include Ruskin, Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites. |
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Tate Modern Mongrel
A major new gallery showing tasty babes, luxury goods, own
goals and psychological props collected by the British social
elite, housed in the former Bankside Power Station on the
south bank of the Thames. |
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Liverpool Mongrel Tate
The largest modern art gallery in the UK set up with the help
of the Toxteth riot.
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Tate St Ives
Modern British art in a spectacular coastal setting located
in one of the lowest waged areas of Britain. |
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Welcome to the Tate website
"Though the concept of a national gallery of British art
may not seem automatically modern, with its roots in a nationalist,
centralist Victorian ethic scarcely in harmony with twenty-first
century society, Tate Britain's agenda is determinedly contemporary...it's
concern is with art's place in the political and cultural entity
that is Britain."
Stephen Deuchar, Director of Tate Britain.
The Tate's scrapbook of British pictorial history has many missing
pages, either torn out through revision or self-censored before
the first sketch. Those that did make it created the cultural cosmetics
of peoples profiting from slavery, migrant labour, colonisation
and transportation. Clearly the images in
the historic collection and the image of the Tate itself are pregnant
with the past's cosmetic cultural surgery made ready for the shopping
lists of the future. The skin of these paintings was stretched over
a psychological frame, a shield against which were thrown the filthy,
diseased, rotting corpses of daily life, profit and excess. The
scrapbooks scalpelled pages will never be found but they articulate
in their absence the political and economic relations of that society
and of ours. While Tate Britain can never be fully inclusive of
peoples histories that may have run counter to it's own, it can
at least be a site of critical participation in the present history
of cultural cosmetics of these islands.
Harwood
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