Exhibition: William Blake: Lost in Translation

摘要

Tate Britain was built partly on the profits of slavery, from the toil on the sugar plantations of Alabama and the Caribbean.1 The Tate & Lyle business flourished with the blood, sweat, and tears of captive Africans forcibly transported or born captive in the British colonies. Perhaps it’s a form of atonement for this legacy for the Tate to embrace an artist who believed in emancipation and social justice.