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continuous basis. In this space age there is really Robert Irwin and James Turrell will collaborate
no beginning or end to aesthetics any more than News on an experimental project at the Life Science Divi­
with ph ys ics. Art exists along the relative scale, sion of Garrett Aerospace; V asarely will come to
and segments of both will attain such intensity as San Jose, California, during the new year; Robert
to contain our own being. Less is now expected The 1970 Pittsburgh International at the Morris will take up residence in a major aerospace
of the artist, and more is demanded of the spec­ Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, will see a major industry early in 1969-he is at present concerned
tator. Like the current song: "Lady Madonna, change in the format of this triennial exhibition. with environmental situations involving sophisti�
lying on the bed, listen to the music playing in There will be no ju ry or prizes; instead, the Director cated heating devices; Robert Rauschenberg has
your head." ' will select a total of 7 5 to 100 artists to show several recently taken up residence in a Los Angeles elec­
I would like to hear Lawrence's or Leavis's com­ works apiece. In announcing these changes the tronics corporation; Roy Lichtenstein is to work
ments on the stunning verbal slackness of this text, Director, Mr Leon Arkus, said 'Hi�dsight indicates with University City Studios from Februa ry ; Larry
the spurious allusions to science, and the degrada­ that too seldom have prizes been given to great Bell will take up residellce with the Rand Corpora­
tion of art to a kind of masturbation with the artist artists Jithin their own time. How can there be a tion early in this year where he will be concerned
as passive stimulus. The paradox is that Mr Coe's best in' the world of art? While we expect that the loss with the forms of decision making and other theoreti­
exhibition looks (from the photographs) to be most of publicity usually attached to prize-giving will be cal artistic problems; and Jean Dubuffet has pro­
interesting. One of the most healthy signs in art considerable, nevertheless I sincerely feel that the posed an ambitious sculptural monument which
today is its growing links with technology. Artists upgrading of the exhibition will make it a much will stretch the ready resources of the American
are being brought into working contact with engi­ more vital and distinguished display of the art of our Cement Company of Riverside, California. The
neers and programmers, to whose own professions day.' The Pittsburgh Internationals were start,:;d in results of the project will be shown in a major ex­
exacting standards; of a different kind, are essen­ 1896. hibition at the Los Angeles County Museum in the
tial. spring of 1970. Work at eve ry stage will be docu­
For this and other reasons, we may hazard that The British Council's selections for loan exhi­ mented for the catalogue by a photographer. The
Ove ry 's insistence on critical evaluation is in tune bitions in thefirstsixmonthsof l969wereannounced programme and exhibition have been made pos­
with the truly important tendencies in the visual recently. The first Ni.irnberg Biennial is on the sible by the participation of corporations-26 to
arts today. The reinstatement of standards will be theme of Constructivism, with a historical section date- which sponsor projects or contribute aid.
bitterly opposed by those who have vested interests of works by invitation and a section illustrating cur­
in art as higher decor or as ephemeral fashion. But rent trends to which individual countries have been The 5th Grand Prix International du Dessin et
on the whole a more astringent climate than the asked to enter a minimum of twenty works. The de la Gravure will be awarded under the auspices
present one is likely to be widely welcomed. British _Council has selected John Ernest, Anthony of the Centre International de Documentation
Yours sincerely, Hill, Ma ry Martin, Kenneth Martin and Gillian Artistique et Culturelle. Artists wishing to partici­
Jonathan Benthall. Wise as British representatives of the movement. To pate should submit two works, either drawings,
Londo�, W.11 the eighth International Exhibition of Graphic Art watercolours or gouaches, or engravings or litho­
in Ljubljana the Council will be sending prints by graphs to the Secretariat General de !'International
Wanted: letters by or to Turner Robyn Denny, David Hockney, AllenJ ones, Henry Arts Guild, 'Palme d'Or des Beaux-Arts', 218-221
Dear Sir, Moore, Eduardo Paolozzi, Victor Pasmore, Joe Palais de la Scala, Monte Carlo. AQ works sub­
I am compiling a Collected Correspondence ofJ. M. W. Tilson, John Hoyland, Mark Lancaster and Colin mitted wiU be shown to a ju ry which �ill allocate
Turner, R.A., and should be most grateful to any Self. To the First International Print Biennial in prizes to a total value of 10.000 FF. The competition
readers of Studio International who could supply in­ Liege they will be sending three prints each by is open to artists of all ages and countries.
formation of letters by·or to Turner, other than Patrick Caulfield, Alan Davie, Robyn Denny, Allen
those in the British Museum, Sir John Soane's Jones and Victor Pasmore. British representatives A multiples competition is being organized by
Museum, the Bodleian Libra ry , the Fitzwilliam at the Sixth Tokyo Print Biennial 1968-9 are the Ikon Galle ry Ltd., 38a Paradise Street, Birming­
Museum, the National Libra ry of Scotland, the Anthony Benjamin, Harold Cohen, Richard Ham­ ham 1. Entries, to be submitted between 18 and 27
Wiltshire Record Office, and the Turner and Lugt ilton (awarded the prize offered by the Museum of Februa ry 1969, should be prototypes or examples of
collections. Western Art), Howard Hodgkin, John Hoyland, works to be produced in unlimited editions. The use
Yours sincerely, Tess Jaray, Mark Lancaster, Bridget Riley, Colin of any communication technique will be acceptable;
John Gage. Self and Richard Smith. The British representatives the competition is intended as 'an open enqui ry into
School of Fine Arts, at the Terith Sao Paulo Bienal will beJ ohn Hoyland the nature of multiple art'. Entries will be judged by
University of East Anglia, and Anthony Caro. Eduardo Paolozzi, Hugh Shaw of the Arts Council,
Wilberforce Road, Kenneth Grange and representatives from the mul­
Norwich. NOR ?7H Leecls College of Art announces the appoint­ tiples organization 'Unlimited'. There will be two
ment of George Brecht as Research Fellow in the prizes of £100 and one of £50. Eve ry effort will be
Art in Canada Fine Arts. Mr Brecht will car ry out a program made to interest manufacturing concerns in the pos­
Dear Sir, aimed at studying the relationship of science and sibility of production and marketing. Further infor­
Without in any way undervaluing Mr Demarco's art, in particular the ways in which scientific ideas mation and ent ry forms (fee £1), from David
achievement in showing modern Canadian paint­ and techniques can be applied by artists. He intends Prentice at the Ikon Galle ry .
ing at the recent Edinburgh Festival, may I say to establish a quarterly journal in Leeds designed to
that my three articles on the subject in Studio increase the flow of scientific information to artists
International were not exactly 'inspired' by the and art students in a form most useful to them.
exhibition 'Canada 101'. I did not, in fact and un­ Mr Brecht is a former research chemist, having
fortunately, see it, although I had seen all the works carried out industrial research over fifteen years for
ultimately included in it while I was in Canada such companies as Chas. Pfizer (antibiotics), John­
myself. My 'inspiration' came from the experience son & Johnson (surgical goods), and Mobil Chemi­
of touring the count ry independently at the Canada cal Company (laser technology applied to plastics
Council's invitation. research). He is also an artist who has exhibited
A second, more recent, visit has shown me already internationally since 1959, having works in many
that several points in the articles could do with re­ collections including that of the Museum of Modern
defining, but may I correct here at least one factual Art in New York, and has done sets and music for·
slip: the Structurist movement led by Eli Bornstein, New York dance companies. His music and theatre
which was featured prominently by William Seitz pieces have been performed widely in the U.S., in
in the Seventh Biennial of Canadian Painting later Europe, and in Japan. .
in 1968, has its centre at Saskatoon and not, as I .
implied, at Regina. Los Angeles County Museum of Art is organ­
Yours faithfully, izing an ambitious Art and Technology programme
David Thompson. during 1969, under the direction of Maurice Tuch­
Little Bardfield, man, the Senior Curator. The instigation of this St Martin's-in:the-Fields by Glyn Foulkes,
Essex. project follows two years of exploratory work. Eight reproduced here by kind permission of the editors of
artists are already contracted to work in advanced Potlatch, the magazine of the St Martin's sculpture
technological corporations for extended periods department.
('Sculpture then seemed a vast empty field, and we
during 1969. Claes Oldenburg will take up resi­ had just climbed over the gate' -David Annesley,
dence in Walt Disney Productions in Februa ry ; quoted in Potlatch.) ,
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