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Keywords: Art, Culture and Society in 1980s Britain

A selection of works on show in 'Keywords: Art, Culture and Society in 1980s Britain', which opens today at Tate Liverpool

The exhibition ‘Keywords: Art, Culture and Society in 1980s Britain’, which opens today at Tate Liverpool, draws on Raymond Williams’ seminal 1976 book on the vocabulary of culture and society to consider how changes in the meaning of words reflect cultural shifts. Below is a selection of works from the show. Click on any image to open the slideshow.

Click here for the curator’s introduction to the exhibition

‘Keywords: Art, Culture and Society in 1980s Britain’ is on at Tate Liverpool until 11 May 2014.

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