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.

Bookended by visits to Henry Tate's mausoleum and the tomb of Lord Mayor Henry Tulse, the author of critically acclaimed poetry collection Surge goes for a six-mile walk across London, 'this city I love', to think about the meaning of complicity. We live in the legacy of colonialism. It permeates the very fabric of the social structures in which we exist. It visibly haunts the streets of London, anchored by statues and monuments that commemorate a violent imperial past.

What does it mean, then, to love this city that was once the heart of an Empire? Punctuated by works in Britain's national collection of art, Look Again: Complicity is an insightful meditation on how art can help us reckon with a dark history and an uncertain future.

About the Author
JAY BERNARD is an artist whose work is interdisciplinary, critical, queer and rooted in the archives. They were named The Sunday Times/ University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year (2020) and are the recipient of the Ted Hughes Award (2017) for Surge: Side A, a cross-disciplinary exploration of the New Cross Fire in 1981. Something Said (2017), an exploration of Black British history, has screened in the UK and internationally, including Aesthetica and Leeds International Film Festival - where it won best experimental and best queer short respectively - and CinemAfrica. Their body of work also includes Crystals of this Social Substance (Serpentine Pavilion 2021), Poet Slash Artist (Manchester International Festival, 2021), and Joint (Southbank Centre 2022).


Book Information
ISBN 9781849768269
Author Jay Bernard
Format Paperback
Page Count 48
Imprint Tate Publishing
Publisher Tate Publishing