TATE ETC, Issue 14 - Autumn 2008

TATE ETC. Magazine, Issue 14 - Autumn 2008On sale 8 September 2008

While driving through the artichoke fields of California, as ominous black clouds gathered overhead, Brice Marden says he had what he calls "a transcendental experience" - the sensation of being "engulfed and totally surrounded by a Rothko painting". Marden pays homage to the master of the abstract sublime.

Contents:

Editors- NoteCarter Ratcliff on RothkoBrice Marden on RothkoBeat Wyss on Caspar David FriedrichPenelope Curtis on Dominique Gonzalez-FoersterLinda Nochlin, Milan Kundera, John Maybury, Peter Doig and others on Francis BaconPeter Campus and Douglas Gordon in conversationSophie Howarth on the school of lifeFrancesca Pasini on Lucio Fontana's Spatial Light - Structure in Neon for the 9th Milan TriennialCildo Meireles and Frederico Morais in conversationMark Godfrey, Omer Fast, Carey Young and Alessandro Ludovico on Cildo MeirelesEncounter: Leonora Carrington and The Cholmondeley LadiesEncounter: Lucy SkaerMicrotate: Heimo Zobernig, Tim Lee, David Shrigley and Kay RosenAnd Tishani Doshi in the Tate Archive

Inside Image: Francis Bacon's studio with his last painting, possibly the beginnings of a portrait of George Dyer, on the easel, photographed by Perry

Ogden in 1992 Hugh Lane Gallery ¸ The Estate of Francis Bacon, all rights reserved, and DACS, 2008