Free Display
Media Networks
See how artists in Tate’s collection have responded to the impact of mass media
© Lee Mawdsley
Look at some of the ways in which artists over the past hundred years have responded to the impact of mass media and the ever-changing technologies that shape our world.
Including a diverse range of techniques and materials – from posters and paint to analogue and digital technology – the display raises questions around feminism, consumerism and the cult of celebrity.
10 rooms in Media Networks
Roy Lichtenstein, Whaam! 1963
Whaam! is based on an image Lichtenstein found in a 1962 DC comic, All American Men of War. Lichtenstein often used art from comics and adverts in his paintings. He saw the act of taking an existing image and changing the context as a way of transforming it’s meaning. Lichtenstein was interested in emotional subjects, such as love and war. His work takes on these themes in a distant and impersonal way.
Gallery label, July 2020
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Cildo Meireles, Babel 2001
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Charline von Heyl, Untitled 2011
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Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (Young-Hae Chang, Marc Voge), TRAILER 2010
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Highlights
Roy Lichtenstein
Whaam!
1963
Cildo Meireles
Babel
2001
Charline von Heyl
Untitled
2011
Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (Young-Hae Chang, Marc Voge)
TRAILER
2010