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London Art Worlds

Mobile, Contingent, and Ephemeral Networks, 1960-1980
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Examines the rich networks of international artists and art practices that emerged in and around London during the 1960s and 1970s. Discusses diverse practices, movements, and spaces, from painting, sculpture, and film to performance, conceptual, and land art.


Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction (Jo Applin, Catherine Spencer, and Amy Tobin)

1. Everything Was Connected: Kinetic Art and Internationalism at Signals London, 1964–66 (Isobel Whitelegg)

2. A Porous Entity: The Centre for Behavioural Art at Gallery House,

1972–73 (Antony Hudek)

3. Mapping the City: Felipe Ehrenberg in London, 1968–71 (Carmen Juli)

4. Restoring Some Period Color to Roelof Louw’s Pyramid of Oranges (1967) (Joy Sleeman)

5. Collectivity, Temporality, and Festival Culture in John Dugger’s Quasi-Architecture, 1970–74 (Courtney J. Martin)

6. Taking the Trouble to Sound It: Mediating Conflict in the Work of Rita Donagh (Catherine Spencer)

7. Circulations and Cooperations: Art, Feminism, and Film in 1960s and 1970s London

(Lucy Reynolds)

8. Project sigma: An Interpersonal Logbook (Andrew Wilson)

9. The Artist as a Speaker-Performer: The London Art School in the 1960s–70s (Elena Crippa)

10. File Under COUM: Art on Trial in Genesis P-Orridge’s Mail Action (Dominic Johnson)


“The essays examine diverse practices, including interactive installation and environmental art, offering instructive discussion of intersections between art, feminism, and film and of the evolution of the London art scene in the 1960s–70s. Recommended.”

—C. J. Jolivette, Choice

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