Keith Arnatt was a British photographer who was born in 1930. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Spr眉th Magers, London have featured Keith Arnatt's work in the past.Keith Arnatt's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 960 USD to 7,628 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2011 the record price for this artist at auction is 7,628 USD for Sunset, sold at Christie's South Kensington in 2013. Keith Arnatt has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for ArtLyst in August 2024. The artist died in 2008.
Tate Britain is set to host 鈥淭he 80s: Photographing Britain,鈥 a landmark exhibition that delves into the transformative decade of the 1980s through the lens of photography.
This autumn, Tate Britain will present The 80s: Photographing Britain, a landmark survey which will consider the decade as a pivotal moment for the medium of photography.
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..Although Arnatt came to be recognised more as a photographer than a conceptual artist, he made clear that being a photographer can never be separated from the practice of being an artist 鈥 an exercise...
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..Arnatt鈥檚 preservation of these notes through photographic documentation underlines the artist鈥檚 distinctive skill of being able to discern the visual and conceptual possibilities of objects and remnants...
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..Arnatt was also interested in expanding the meaning and function of an artwork in terms of its relationship to the discrete acts of bringing a work into being...
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..Using the camera to produce rather than document art, these later works are characterised by Arnatt鈥檚 engaged scrutiny and observation of the subject...
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..Taken out of context and blown up they become surreal, showing Arnatt鈥檚 understanding that observation could be transformed by the act of isolation...
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