The words slide by around the gallery walls, in a large, looping hand-drawn script, with lots of space between. Anthropology, Criticism, Folk, Formalist, Liberation, Materialism, Myth, Native, Private, Structural, Theory, Unconscious and Violence: these are the guiding rubrics of Keywords: Art, Culture and Society in 1980s Britain at Tate Liverpool.
Based on the late Raymond Williams's 1976 book Keywords, in which over 130 words From Aesthetic to Work are accompanied by short essays on their shifting meanings and context, use and definition, this show restages and enlarges an exhibition that first took place at London's Iniva [Institute of International Visual Arts] last year. Almost everything here comes from Tate's own collection, and Tate Liverpool is charging £8 entry for a show of works it already owns. The keyword here is money.