Look Again: The Sea

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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.





Author Philip Hoare takes us on an exploration of the sea and the way it has provided a deep source of inspiration for artists featured in the Tate collection, from William Blake to Maggi Hambling.





Artists have always seen the sea as a mirror of their anxieties and desires; an endless resource for their creativity and their dreams. Under our human sway, the sea has shifted in meaning, from creation myth to economic wealth, from mystic wonder to modern exploitation. Look Again: The Sea dives into the breadth of historical and contemporary works in Britain's national collection of art, as well as the beloved literature they have inspired. By reframing them within a social and political perspective rather than a chronological or art-historical one, prize-winning author Philip Hoare shows how art has continually borne witness to the power and allure of the sea.

Author Bio

Philip Hoare is the author of nine works of nonfiction, including biographies of Stephen Tennant
and Nol Coward, and the studies, Wilde's Last
Stand and England's Lost Eden. Spike Island was
chosen by W.G. Sebald as his book of the year for
2001. In 2009, Leviathan or, The Whale won the
2009 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction.
It was followed in 2013 by The Sea Inside, and in
2017 by RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR. His new book,
Albert & the Whale led the New York Times to call
the author a 'forceful weather system' of his own,
was 'Art Book' of 2021 for The Observer and the
Sunday Times, and shortlisted for the Folio Prize
and PEN biography prize. Philip is Professor of
Creative Writing at the University of Southampton,
and co-curator, with Angela Cockayne, of the
podcasts www.mobydickbigread.com and
www.ancientmarinerbigread.com which have
received 10 million hits to date.