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Harold Hurrell
Harold Hurrell (born 1940 in Barnsley, Yorkshire; lives in Hull, England) is a British Conceptual art, conceptual artist and former member of the Art & Language artist group. Life Harold Hurrell studied at Sheffield College of Art from 1961 to 1964 and at the Institute of Education in London from 1964 to 1965. He taught at Hull College of Art from 1967 and at the Function Seminar at Saint Martin's School of Art, St Martin's School of Art in London in 1967. Harold Hurrell became a member of the Art & Language group in the early 1970s and remained so until the mid 1970s. Harold Hurrell was a member of Art & Language in 1972 and participated in Documenta 5 in Kassel with the project ''Index 0001'' in the section "''Idea + Idea/Light''", together with the Art & Language artists Terry Atkinson, David Bainbridge, Ian Burn, Michael Baldwin (artist), Michael Baldwin, Charles Townsend Harrison, Charles Harrison, Mel Ramsden and Joseph Kosuth. With Art & Language he was also represented ...
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Art Language Journal Conceptual Art Contemporary Art
Art is a diverse range of human behavior, human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imagination, imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas. There is no generally agreed definition of what constitutes art, and its interpretation has varied greatly throughout history and across cultures. In the Western tradition, the three classical branches of visual art are painting, sculpture, and architecture. Theatre, dance, and other performing arts, as well as literature, music, film and other media such as interactive media, are included in a broader definition of the arts. Until the 17th century, ''art'' referred to any skill or mastery and was not differentiated from crafts or sciences. In modern usage after the 17th century, where aesthetic considerations are paramount, the fine arts are separated and distinguished from acquired skills in general, such as the decorative arts, decorative or applied arts. ...
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Michael Baldwin (artist)
Michael Baldwin (born 1945 in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England; lives in Middleton Cheney, near Banbury, England) is a British conceptual artist, author and founding member of the Art & Language artist group. Life and work Michael Baldwin studied at Coventry College of Art from 1964 to 1967 and taught at Lanchester Polytechnic in Coventry from 1969 to 1971 and at Leamington School of Art from 1969. Mirror piece is an installation of variable dimensions he created in 1965. It is composed of multiple mirrors of different sizes covered with regular or deforming glass plates, presented on wooden panels. This installation is accompanied by a protocol and text panels. Michael Baldwin met the artist Terry Atkinson in 1966 at Coventry College of Art, where Atkinson taught. They founded the avant-garde Art & Language group in 1968. As a member of Art & Language in 1972, Michael Baldwin took part in Documenta 5 in Kassel with the project ''Index 0001'' in the ''Idea + Idea/Li ...
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1940 Births
Year 194 ( CXCIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Septimius and Septimius (or, less frequently, year 947 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 194 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus and Decimus Clodius Septimius Albinus Caesar become Roman Consuls. * Battle of Issus: Septimius Severus marches with his army (12 legions) to Cilicia, and defeats Pescennius Niger, Roman governor of Syria. Pescennius retreats to Antioch, and is executed by Severus' troops. * Septimius Severus besieges Byzantium (194–196); the city walls suffer extensive damage. Asia * Battle of Yan Province: Warlords Cao Cao and Lü Bu fight for control over Yan Province; the battle lasts for over 100 ...
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Documenta 6
documenta 6 was the sixth edition of documenta, a quinquennial contemporary art exhibition. It was held between 24 June and 2 October 1977 in Kassel, West Germany. The artistic director was Manfred Schneckenburger Manfred Schneckenburger (1 December 1938 – 2 December 2019) was a German art historian and curator of modern and contemporary art. He was the curator of the ''documenta'' art exhibition twice, documenta 6 in 1977 and documenta 8 in 1987. He was .... The title of the exhibition was: Internationale Ausstellung – international exhibition. Participants References {{Authority control Documenta 1977 in Germany 1977 in art ...
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Joseph Kosuth
Joseph Kosuth (; born January 31, 1945), an American conceptual artist, lives in New York and London,Joseph Kosuth
Guggenheim Collection.
after having resided in various cities in Europe, including and .Joseph Kosuth, June 20 - July 4, 2000
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Mel Ramsden
Mel Ramsden (born 1944) is a British conceptual artist and member of the Art & Language artist group. Life and work Ramsden was born in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, Great Britain. He studied at Nottingham College of Art from 1961 to 1963, went to Australia in 1963 and studied at the National Gallery School of Victoria from 1963 to 1964. In 1967 Ramsden moved to New York City in the United States and began the series of the '' Secret Painting''s and the ''Two Black Squares''. Ramsden, along with Ian Burn, co-founded the ''Art Press'' and ''The Society for Theoretical Art and Analysis'' in New York City in 1969. Ramsden became a member of Art & Language in 1971. As a member of Art & Language in 1972, Ramsden participated in Documenta 5 in Kassel with the project "Index 0001" in the department Idea + Idea/Light, together with the Art & Language artists Terry Atkinson, David Bainbridge, Ian Burn, Charles Harrison, Harold Hurrell, Michael Baldwin and Joseph Kosuth. With Art & Lang ...
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Charles Townsend Harrison
Charles Townsend Harrison (11 February 1942 Chesham, Buckinghamshire – 6 August 2009 Banbury, Oxfordshire), BA Hons (Cantab), MA (Cantab), PhD (London) was a UK art historian who taught Art History for many years and was Emeritus Professor of History and Theory of Art at the Open University. Although he denied being an artist himself, he was a full participant and catalyst in the Art and Language group. Charles Harrison was educated at Cambridge University and the Courtauld Institute of Art in London from 1961 to 1967. He was tutor in Art History at the Open University from 1977–2005, Reader in Art History there from 1985-1994, Professor of the History and Theory of Art from 1994–2008, Professor Emeritus from 2008–2009, and Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago in 1991 and 1996, and Visiting Professor at the University of Texas in 1997. Charles Harrison became a member of the Art & Language artist group in 1971 and was an editor of Art-Language. He was also a ...
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Ian Burn
Ian Burn (29 December 1939 – 29 September 1993) was an Australian conceptual artist. He was a member of the Art and Language group that flourished in the 1970s. Ian Burn was also an art writer, curator, and scholar. Biography Ian Burn was born on 29 December 1939 in Geelong, Australia. Burn studied art at the National Gallery Art School in Melbourne. He became affiliated with the Art and Language collective when he moved to London in 1964 and remained a part of the group when he moved to New York City in 1967. In 1977, Burn returned to Australia to teach at Sydney University. Ian Burn drowned on 29 September 1993 while swimming in rough seas at Bawley Point, New South Wales. Notable work " Xerox Book", 1968 - 100 iterative copies of a blank sheet of white paper on a Xerox 720, arranged in a book in the order they were created. The final pages in the series of copies were filled with black forms that had arisen slowly from the 'error' of the machine. In 1969 Ian Bur ...
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Barnsley
Barnsley () is a market town in South Yorkshire, England. As the main settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley and the fourth largest settlement in South Yorkshire. In Barnsley, the population was 96,888 while the wider Borough has seen an increase of 5.8%, from 231,200 in 2011 census to 244,600 in 2021 census. Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is located between the cities of Sheffield, Manchester, Doncaster, Wakefield, and Leeds. The larger towns of Rotherham and Huddersfield are nearby. Barnsley's former industries include linen, coal mining, glassmaking and textiles. These declined in the 20th century, but Barnsley's culture is rooted in its industrial heritage and it has a tradition of brass bands, originally created as social clubs by its mining communities. The town is near to the M1 motorway and is served by Barnsley Interchange railway station on the Hallam and Penistone Lines. Barnsley has competed in the second tier of English footbal ...
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Terry Atkinson
Terry Atkinson (born 1939) is an English artist. Atkinson was born in Thurnscoe, near Barnsley, Yorkshire. He lives in Leamington Spa, England with his wife, artist Sue Atkinson, with whom he has frequently collaborated. In 1967, he began to teach art at the Coventry School of Art while producing conceptual works, sometimes in collaboration with Michael Baldwin. In 1968 they, together with Harold Hurrell and David Bainbridge who also taught at Coventry, formed Art & Language, a group whose influence on other artists both in the UK and in the United States is widely acknowledged. Atkinson was founder-member (with colleagues John Bowstead, Roger Jeffs and Bernard Jennings) of the group Fine-Artz (1963), and (with David Bainbridge, Michael Baldwin and Harold Hurrell) of the group Art & Language (1968–74), two of the most influential collectives in contemporary Western art. Atkinson stopped teaching at Coventry in 1973 and the following year left Art & Language. He has si ...
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Kassel
Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel and the district of the same name and had 201,048 inhabitants in December 2020. The former capital of the state of Hesse-Kassel has many palaces and parks, including the Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Kassel is also known for the '' documenta'' exhibitions of contemporary art. Kassel has a public university with 25,000 students (2018) and a multicultural population (39% of the citizens in 2017 had a migration background). History Kassel was first mentioned in 913 AD, as the place where two deeds were signed by King Conrad I. The place was called ''Chasella'' or ''Chassalla'' and was a fortification at a bridge crossing the Fulda river. There are several yet unproven assumptions of the name's origin. It could be derived from the ancient ''Castellum Cattorum'', a castle of the ...
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