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Mystic art of ancient Tibet by Blanche The Rotterdam Arts
Christine Olschak and Geshé Foundation Videogroup have since
Thupten Wangyal. 224pp ; 514 1971 been helping artists from
illustrations, many in colour, different countries to realize their
bibliography. Allen Et Unwin, 1973. ideas in video. Production costs are
£10.50. paid for by the foundation who keep
Mahayana Buddhism as expressed in all the master-tapes which are made.
the art of Tibet : frescoes, book Artists who have used the facilities so
illuminations, gilded bronzes, far include Dennis Oppenheim,
painted scrolls, wood and stone Terry Fox and Peter Hutchinson.
sculpture. A scholarly description of Further information is available from
the iconography and symbolism of Rotterdamse Kunstichting, afdeling
Buddhist art by two European tentoonstellingen-Video,
specialists in Far Eastern studies. Kruisplein 30, Rotterdam-2,
Holland.
Idea art:a critical anthology edited by
Gregory Battcock. 217pp, illustrated. Roger Hilton will be having a
New York, Dutton, 1973. £1.50. retrospective exhibition at the
Fourteen articles, mostly rather short, Serpentine Gallery during March
reprinted from art journals; includes 1974. This will be followed by a
Robert Hughes' Time piece on the Dutch show in May.
Installation shot of first Russian constructivist show
decline of the Avant-Garde.
Generally a hotchpotch collection Peter Kennard, who showed his
with little to justify the title 'Idea art'. committee's proposal because her backdrop in advertisements for their Generation Newspeak at Zeez Arts
'programme of studies was not gin, without permission (see Evening in 1970, has joined the Workers Press
China :a history in art by Bradley sufficiently detailed' and her Standard, London 25 October), as their first photo- montagist.
Smith and Wan-go Weng. 296pp ; knowledge of Italian was notsufficient have apologized and made a
305 illustrations, map, to enable her to follow the course'. settlement with the artist out of court. The Lisson Gallery, 68, Bell Street,
bibliography. Studio Vista, 1973. Yet on her application form and Other artists please note. London NW1, have installed for an
£7.50. during her interview she said that she indefinite period a microfilm reading
A history of China from prehistoric did not speak Italian. She was never The University of Newcastle machine for Art-Language texts.
times to 1949. The rather stodgily told by the British Council that in fact Upon Tyne are reconstructing the
written text is copiously illustrated by Italian is 'an indispensable condition 1920 Moscow Constructivist The Tate Gallery have recently
examples of Chinese art. The failing of of the award of a scholarship'. In a Exhibition from photographs. Those bought a photopiece by Dennis
this kind of book is that it falls letter to her MP, Michael Stewart, works which are invisible or obscure Oppenheim called Saltflat. It will be
between two stools, providing neither Jane Humphrey says : 'I am astonished in the photographs will be on view early in the new year.
a detailed history of China nor a that it took the Ministry six months to substituted with other similar pieces.
detailed account of Chinese art. decide that my insufficient knowledge The project is being organized by The 8th National/International
of Italian did not meet with the John Milner and will be on view at Sculpture Conference will be held
Correction: Postal Sculpture by conditions of the award. The most the University Gallery in March 1974. at the National Sculpture Centre,
Robin Klassnik costs 50p signed, important factor now of course is that University of Kansas, Lawrence,
£1.50 unsigned. the six months I had to wait for a reply Jam Press is a variable format Kansas from 25-27 April, 1974.
John Walker was the most crucial time in my publishing structure, phase one of
career ... I have been completely which is a set of 12 single sheet The Inner London Education
misled throughout the negotiations posters to be published monthly Authority will be implementing the
Pooling Committee's
toward the award of the scholarship. I beginning December 1973. Amongst recommendations on staff/student
the contributors are John Bird, John
feel that the British Council have the
News and responsibility to see that the Blake, Ed Herring, Bruce McLean, ratios in its art schools over the next
conditions of a scholarship of this John Stezaker, Nice Style and few years. This is part of a cut-back
in higher education in order to
Richard Wentworth. Jam Press is
notes nature are quite clearly defined, so edited by Roy Grayson and finance Margaret Thatcher's
misunderstandings, like my case,
cannot possibly occur again'. distributed by Brighton Polytechnic. nursery education scheme. This
Jane Humphrey, whilst a post- Subscription for 12 posters is £3.50 could mean a reduction of almost
graduate student at the Royal The Chinese Exhibition was seen payable to Brighton Polytechnic 50% in part-time staff at some
Academy Schools, applied, through by 239,000 people in its first month Exhibition Fund at Brighton schools.
the British Council, for an Italian of showing at the Royal Academy. Polytechnic, Grand Parade,
Government Scholarship to study at Brighton, BN2 2JY. Judy Clark is showing at Garage
the Brera Academy in Milan. After an A Major Edvard Munch Arts, 52, Earlham St, WC2, until 15
interview in March 1973 by a joint Exhibition will be shown at the George Frederic Watts, the December. She is concerned with the
committee of the Italian Institute and Hayward Gallery from 12 January to nineteenth-century English painter of borderline between what is acceptable
the British Council she was proposed 3 March 1974. This will be joined on historical, allegorical and portrait and what is taboo. Amongst her
for a scholarship and her name sent to 25 January by a show of paintings by paintings, will be showing at the works is a catalogue of female hairs,
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Lucien Freud. Whitechapel Gallery from 22 January a catalogue of female secretions and
Rome for approval. During the to 3 March 1974. a perspex box containing layers of
summer she received hints from the Gilbey's, who copied Bridget Riley's Oh ! East is East, and West is West, as dust swept from her bed every week.
Italian Institute that in fact she had paintings Fall and Blaze, as the Rudyard Kipling says.
been approved ;'you will be enrolled When the poor East enjoys the Art for Sotheby's will be holding another
at the Brera Academy ... Please which the rich West pays, sale of contemporary art in the first
inform the consulate to send the See East and West linked in their best ! week of April 1974.
document back to the Italian Institute With the Art- wants of Whitechapel
stating you had a Government Good Canon Barnett is just the man Another Morris Louis
Scholarship ... As soon as we receive who best knows how to grapple. Exhibition is being planned for the
the document which permits you to So charge this Canon, load to muzzle, Hayward Gallery next year from 25
collect the money — we will forward it all ye great Jubilee guns. June to 2 September. Morris Louis's
to you, together with a letter of Pictures as good as sermons ?Aye, last retrospective exhibition in
tntroduction'. On 19 September, much better than some poor ones. London was at the Whitechapel
however, a few weeks before she Where Whitechapel's darkness the Gallery in 1965.
intended leaving for Italy, she received weary eyes of the dreary workers
a letter from the Italian Institute dims Strike at MOMA: When Barry
stating that the Ministry of Foreign It may be found that Watts' pictures do Flanagan arrived in New York on
Affairs had rejected the joint Bridget Riley Fall 1963 (Tate Gallery) better than Watts' hymns. 8 October to install his work for the
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