1950s art
1960s art
Bridget Riley
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geometric art
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Jesus Rafael Soto
kinetic art
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optical art
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Twentieth century art
Victor Vasarely
Product details
- ISBN 9781849769693
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 27 Mar 2025
- Publisher: Tate Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
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From the birth of op art to the dawn of the internet age, artists found new ways to engage the senses and play with perception. Electric Dreams, one of Tate Modern's most ambitious exhibitions to date, celebrates the early innovators of optical, kinetic, programmed and digital art, who pioneered a new era of immersive sensory installations and automatically generated works.
This publication, part of the Tate Dialogues series, provides an essential overview of the exhibition, and of this extraordinary period — showcasing groundbreaking works by international artists engaging with science, technology and material innovation in radical new ways, and celebrating their influence today.
Val Ravaglia is Curator, Displays & International Art at Tate Modern, London. They have a special interest in the intersections of art, science and technology, nonanthropocentric philosophies and the posthumanities, curating Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet (2024–25) and A Year in Art: Australia 1992 (2021–23), as well as the touring Tate exhibition The Dynamic Eye: Beyond Op and Kinetic Art.
