Nat Tate: my part in his art
All history is the history of unintended consequences," so the old saying goes, and the validity of the assumption is particularly well exemplified in the case of the fictional artist, Nat Tate (1928-60). I deliberately didn't use the possessive pronoun there – it was no Freudian slip – not "my" fictional artist but "the" fictional artist. Yet, Nat Tate is my invention – Nat is my creature; however, a long time ago, he seemed to slip free of my imagination and take on a life of his own.It all started in 1998. I was on the editorial board of Modern Painters magazine , then a very classy and influential art quarterly, and one day in a meeting the editor of the magazine, Karen Wright, wondered out loud if there was a way we could introduce some fiction into the mix of artists' profiles, exhibition reviews and general essays in which the magazine specialised. I don't know what made me speak out but I said, without really thinking: "Why don't I invent an artist?" And so Nat Tate was born.



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