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Tate Publishing brings the best new writing on art and visual culture, plus an innovative range of children's books, to a wide and diverse audience.

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16/06/2025

Art is a global phenomenon. But how do we encounter it? What does it do? And what can it tell us about ourselves?

These are some of the questions that Dana Arnold explores in her expanded edition of 'A Short Book About Art'.

Drawing parallels across different time periods and cultures, from the cavemen to Picasso, Gainsborough to Hockney and Turner to Hokusai, this book is a lively illustrated journey through art history – perfect for anyone wanting to learn more across a stunning breadth of art.

Available now and online, and .

13/06/2025

🎺 EDWARD BURRA 🎺

Renowned for his extraordinarily imaginative works — from satirical depictions of the urban underworld in France and vibrant jazz clubs of New York during the Harlem Renaissance, to landscapes showing the rise of industry in post-war Britain — Edward Burra uniquely blended first-hand experiences and memories with a rich tapestry of visual references, drawn from newspapers, literature, art history, music and cinema.

This major monograph — published to accompany the first Tate exhibition of Burra's works since the artist's lifetime — offers a close look at over eighty works, some of which will be presented for the first time from the Tate archives. It reveals the life of an unconventional artist who experienced first-hand many of the most turbulent and catastrophic events of the twentieth century, including the Second World War and the Spanish Civil War, and reflected them in his increasingly surrealist work.

Featuring contributions from Thomas Kennedy, Eliza Spindel, Rosemary Shirley, Andrew Stephenson, and Catherine Tackley.

Design by .studio

📚 Available now in and all good bookshops.

06/06/2025

🏠 DO HO SUH: WALK THE HOUSE 🏠

Enter the captivating world of leading contemporary artist Do Ho Suh with this exquisitely assembled monograph, produced in close collaboration with the artist and featuring exposed Swiss binding and a delicately embossed cover.

📕 Order your copy today at : https://shop.tate.org.uk/do-ho-suh-the-genesis-exhibition-book/30368.html

30/04/2025

💥 3 stunning new titles - out in paperback now! 💥

LION LEARNS A LESSON by Alice Horn
Meet Lion. Lion loves to be the best – and he especially loves to let people know it. After boasting to his friends that he can do anything, he enters a plant competition to grow the best plant. But things don’t go according to plan...

THE SUN AND THE RHINOCEROS by Ondjaki and Catalina Vásquez
In the ancient forest, a beautiful rhinoceros was wondering why he felt sadness in his heart, and asked for help.
What follows is an enchanting fable about the importance of kindness and empathy.

THE DREAM KITE by Grace Hallworth and Sophie Bass
Arty has a magical dream about flying a wonderful kite made of many colours. But when his mother wakes him, he realises that it was just his imagination.

Will Arty’s family be able to help him make his dream come true of making his own marvellous kite in time for the kite festival?

☀️ Find them all in ! ☀️

15/04/2025

To celebrate , we're delighted to announce the new edition of Dana Arnold's bestselling survey of art history, A Short Book About Art.

🎨How is art made? How can we interpret it's meaning? And what is the significance of the way it's displayed?

🎨This book seeks to answer these questions and more using six common themes that bind together art from around the world: looking, materials, mind, devotion, power and s*x.

🎨With new illustrations, fresh insights and provocative visual comparisons, this expanded editoon is the perfect companion for anyone wanting to learn more across a stunning breadth of art.

Available now and online!

02/04/2025

Happy ! Today and every day we celebrate the power of storytelling and aim to inspire a love of reading in children.

Here are some of our most recent children’s books to add to your list:
🦁Lion Learns a Lesson by .paints
🫎Moose on the Loose by Alex Willmore
🌹Grandma’s Locs by and
〰️Pattern and Portrait Activity Books by and Kathryn Box
🎁The Gift by and
🐦‍⬛Electric Birds of Pothakudi by Karthika Nair and
🩰Giselle translated by Charlotte Gastaut

A reminder that Story Space – celebrating books that centre children of colour, featuring books by Black authors, indigenous authors and authors of colour from around the world – is open at Tate Britain every weekend and Mondays during term-time and every day during school holidays.

All books pictured available now and online! Happy reading!

28/03/2025

🪻 For Mother’s Day this weekend, pick up the perfect gift. 🪻

🌷 This beautiful gift book delves into the subject of motherhood as seen through the eyes of artists over the last 400 years, providing a fresh insight into maternity as an art-historical subject and revealing the ways in which it has been confronted and re-imagined
over the past 400 years.

Featuring fifty artworks in a variety of media, this book is a celebration of motherhood in all its complexity.

💐 Find it in and online. 💐

03/03/2025

Have you seen our new slipcase edition of 's 'Songs of Innocence and of Experience' yet?

✨Blake's 'Songs' is a revolutionary collection of poetry from one of Britain's most important artists.

✨This authentic edition faithfully reproduces the artist's illumination and lettering from the finest existing example of the original work.

✨Now available in a beautifully foiled slipcase, sure to elevate any bookcase or coffee table!

Available now and online!

28/02/2025

🌀 LEIGH BOWERY is out now! 🌀

🔹 Pick up the comprehensive monograph on the boundary-pushing career of artist, performer, model, TV personality, club promoter, fashion designer and musician, Leigh Bowery.

🔹 In addition to Bowery's own works, the book also includes paintings of the artist by Lucian Freud, and works made with and about Bowery by Stephen Willats and Trojan Barnes, among others. A visual inventory of all of Bowery's costumes, held by the artist's estate, has been newly photographed – published here for the first time.

🌟 Tate Modern: 27 February – 31 August 2025 🌟

Image details: Fergus Greer, Leigh Bowery Session 1 Look 2 1988 © Fergus Greer. Courtesy Michael Hoppen Gallery

25/02/2025

LEIGH BOWERY is opening soon!

🔸 Leigh Bowery (1961–1994) used performance to explore questions around the politics of the body, and its use as both material and a site of transformation. He was also fascinated by the subversive potential of costume as sculpture.

🔸 Pick up the towering and luminous monograph on the boundary-pushing career of artist, performer, model, TV personality, club promoter, fashion designer and musician, Leigh Bowery, available in now.

🌟 Tate Modern: 27 February – 31 August 2025 🌟

Image details: Polaroid portrait of Leigh Bowery 1986 © Peter Paul Hartnett / Camera Press

21/02/2025

LEIGH BOWERY is coming to Tate Modern!

💥 Leigh Bowery’s (1961–1994) extraordinary life left a distinct, undeniable mark on the art world and beyond.

💥 The luxurious exhibition book is available now and features over two hundred images by and of the artist – spanning an eclectic and dynamic career which included fashion photography, club polaroids, film stills, paintings, postcards, and ephemera.

🌟 Tate Modern: 27 February – 31 August 2025

Image details: Fergus Greer, Leigh Bowery Session 4 Look 17 August 1991 © Fergus Greer. Courtesy Michael Hoppen Gallery.

20/02/2025

✨ ITHELL COLQUHOUN: BETWEEN WORLDS is now open at Tate St Ives, coming soon to Tate Britain! ✨

🌀 A landmark publication on an artist whose life has largely been shrouded in mystery, this dazzling volume reveals a daring visionary who charted her own course between two worlds: that of modern art and the realms of myth and magic.

🌀 Ithell Colquhoun (1906–1988) was one of the most ground-breaking artists of her generation. Colquhoun investigated surrealist methods of unconscious picture-making and fearlessly delving into the realms of myth and magic, exploring the possibilities of a divine feminine power as a path to personal fulfilment and societal transformation.

🌀 Find this stunning book in and online!

🌟 Tate St Ives - Until 5 May 2025
🌟 Tate Britain: 13 June – 19 October 2025

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