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Conceptual Art and other Essays by Art & Language 1965-2023
ISBN: 9789462303836
(HB - EN)
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Art & Language is an artists' collective that was founded in 1965 by a group of mainly British and American artists.
The name Art & Language is derived from the journal Art-Language (first published in Coventryin May 1969) which had its origins in the work of Terry Atkinson and Michael Baldwin (from 1966) in association with Harold Hurrell and David Bainbridge. These were its original editors. Art & Language was used subsequently to identify the joint and several artistic works of these four in an effort to reflect the conversational basis of their activity which, by late 1969, already included contributions from New Yorkby Joseph Kosuth, Ian Burn and Mel Ramsden.
Art & Language is not only focused on creating artworks but also develops its own art theory and is of crucial importance in the understanding and theoretical underpinning of conceptual art in the 70s and 80s.
By 1976 the genealogical thread of this artistic work had been taken into the hands of Michael Baldwin and Mel Ramsden, with whom it remains.
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