Look Again: Empire

This book is a vital exploration of how Britain’s colonial legacy has shaped its art, by one of the UK’s most influential voices on the subject.Empire is part of the Tate Britain: Look Again series of books exploring the National Collection of British Art, and challenges the story of art we have been led to believe. It explores how the value and meanings of some of the most recognisable and best-loved artworks have changed throughout history, and about what they still mean to us today.

In twenty-first century Britain, ‘empire’ is a word we cannot ignore. Our history of war, conquest and slavery continues to shape our present, and future. In Empire, award-winning author and broadcaster Afua Hirsch explores the ways in which Britain’s imperial history and its national collection of art interact, and how artists from Britain and around the world have responded to the dramas, tragedies and everyday experiences of the Empire.

About the author

Afua Hirsch is a writer, author, TV presenter and documentary maker. She studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford, and worked as a barrister before becoming legal affairs correspondent, and later the West Africa correspondent, at the Guardian., until 2017. She has worked as the Social Affairs editor at Sky News, presented a range of television and radio documentaries, including Britain's Bloody Heroes, African Art, Enslaved and The White House, and is a regular contributor current affairs programmes including The Pledge, Channel 4 News, BBC2 Newsnight, BBC1 Question Time, and CNN. She is the author of Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging, winner of the RSL Jerwood Prize and a Sunday Times bestseller, and Equal To Everything, a children’s book which tells the story of Lady Brenda Hale. She regularly writes for publications including Time Magazine, Vogue, The Sunday Times and the Observer. She is currently the Wallis Annenberg Chair of Journalism at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

• Dimensions 10.5 x 14.8 cm
• Material FSC certified paper and card
• ISBN 9781849767774
• Hardback Yes
• No of pages 48