2 photographs on paper
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/tim-head-1259" aria-label="More by Tim Head" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Tim Head</a>
False Alarm II
Purchased 1981
emotions, concepts and ideas
formal qualities
photographic
paper print 2 photographs
False Alarm II
image: 511 × 613 mm
Purchased 1981
<p><b>P07517</b> FALSE ALARM 11 1978
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<br/>Not inscribed
<br/>Two photographs, printed by Michael Dyer Associates and published by the artist in an edition of 5, each 20 1/8×24 1/8 (51.2× 61.3)
<br/>Purchased from Antoinette Godkin (Grant-in-Aid) 1982
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<br/>The <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/photograph" title="Glossary definition for 'Photograph'"><span>photographs</span></a> used in these two works [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/head-false-alarm-i-p07516" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07516</span></a>-<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/head-false-alarm-ii-p07517" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07517</span></a>] are from 35mm slides taken by Chris Davies and projected as part of the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/i/installation-art" title="Glossary definition for 'Installation'"><span>installation</span></a> of the same title. There is a unique work consisting of four photographs mounted together: ‘Four Small False Alarms’ 1978. This work is related to ‘<a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/still-life" title="Glossary definition for 'Still life'"><span>Still Life</span></a>’ 1977–8 (coll. British Council). The photograph was taken in the exhibition gallery at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge towards the end of Head's tenure of a post as artist-in-residence at Clare Hall and Kettle's Yard. The brick wall depicted has subsequently been plastered.
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>The Tate Gallery 1980-82: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions, London 1984
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emotions, concepts and ideas formal qualities photographic