Look Again: The Sea

Description

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 looks at its power and alluring draw for centuries of artists featured in the Tate collection, from William Blake to Maggi Hambling.

Philip Hoare is the author of nine works of nonfiction, including biographies of Stephen Tennant and Noel 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.