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GRAPHICS for a few complaints bound to arise CONTENTS
because of the pubic hair. The whole
project is too much like an
(Items for review in the 'Feedback, advertising campaign. The plotted
Graphics / Bud Shark 37
'Graphics' and 'Vision' columns display sites, the documentation,
Feedback / Clive Phillpot 38
should be sent to Clive Phillpot, and the follow-up exhibition is too
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Books / Timothy Craig
Bud Shark and Malcolm Le Grice similiar to that which might be done
Vision / Malcom Le Grice 39
respectively, all c/o Studio by an advertising agency promoting
Focus / Tony Hyde 39
International, 14 West Central Street, a new product. In the end this project
New work by Phillip King /
London WC1.) seems like an ad for the artists
Barry Martin 40
themselves.
News and notes / John Cauman 40
Denis Masi and Ian Colverson have a There is still time for entries into
USA / Linda Cathcart and Ann Thornycroft 41
joint project, financed by the Arts what appears to be a worthwhile
Germany / Gunther Wirth 42
Council, on view this month at 134 print competition, and exhibition.
Recent London shows / reviews
sites in 16 cities in England, Scotland Entries should be in to the World
by Nicholas Wadley, Janet
and Wales. It consists of a six-colour Print Competition '73 sponsored by
Hobhouse, Catherine Lampert,
photo-lithograph billboard 10 ft the California College of Arts and
Rosetta Brooks, R. J. Rees,
by 6 ft 8 in. Called 'For Otiose Sailors Crafts by 15 August. There are two
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and Girl Guides Only' . . . There will be parts to the competition. Part one
photo-documentation of each site and will be 'Twenty special edition
its location, which will form a follow- purchase awards of $1, 500 each for Clive Phillpot is Librarian of
up exhibition at the Serpentine artists who agree, if their entry is Chelsea School of Art ... Tim Craig
Gallery in September. The ideas selected by the jury, to produce an is a poet and critic . . .Malcolm
behind the project are certainly edition of sixty prints which will be Le Grice is a film-maker and
interesting — making use of assembled into portfolios'. (Entries teaches at St Martin's School of Art
commercial printing processes and must be an artist's proof of a print ... John Cauman has written for
display arrangements, and putting done solely for the competition. It can Art International, and is completing
'Art' where large numbers of people also be entered in part two.) Part two a book on visual concepts for
can see it (it is estimated that the consists of 'Prizes totalling $5,000 for children ... Bud Shark is an artist
image will be seen by about 792,764 selected single works to be included and lectures in printmaking at the
people during the month). in the exhibition.' Entry forms and Slade ... Gunter Wirth is a German
Unfortunately, I find the project falls more information from : C.C.A.C. art critic ... Catherine Lampert is an
short of its intentions. The six-colour World Print Competition 73, artist and critic ... Janet Hobhouse
photo-mechanical process hasn't 633 Battery Street, San Francisco, is a free-lance writer and art critic ...
been used in any way other than to California, 94111 USA. R. J. Rees is lecturer at Birmingham
reproduce the image— certainly the Among new publications by College of Art and Lanchester
process itself hasn't contributed to the Landfall Press Inc., 63 West Ontario Polytechnic ... Nicholas Wadley
image. The aspect of scale has been Street, Chicago, Illinois, 60610, are is Head of the Department of Art
virtually ignored, and the image four prints by William T. Wiley. History and General Studies at
itself is coy and obscure. It's not They're Field Stone, Feels Tone, Chelsea School ... Tony Rothon
likely to have much impact on the Feel Stoned,and Checking it All Out. has recently graduated from the
men and women in the street except They have also done a 10-colour Slade ... Barry Martin, teaches at
Goldsmith College and Croydon
College of Art ... Tony Hyde is a
photographer, and former editor
and publisher of the Photo Times,
New York, a magazine for
professional photographers...
Rosetta Brooks is Assistant
Director of Gallery House, London ...
Linda Cathcart is a free-lance
writer and art critic, living in New
York ... Ann Thornycroft is a
free-lance writer, living in Los
Angeles.

David Hockney Henry Geldzahler 1973. Petersburg Press Ltd.
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