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FEEDBACK My Italian does not take me much CONTENTS
further than the title of II Territorio
Magico, comportamenti alternativi
Jean Dubuffet, a retrospective is the dell'arte by Achille Bonito Oliva, Feedback / Clive Phillpot 97
substantial catalogue of the which was published in Florence by Vision / Malcolm Le Grice 98
exhibition shown at the Solomon R. Centro Di in 1972 at 3000 lire, Graphics/ Bud Shark 98
Guggenheim Museum, New York however since three quarters of this Books / John Walker 99
(and published by the museum at paperback is composed of photos, Focus / Anthony Hyde Jr. 99
c. $10.00) from April to July this which seem to add up to something News and notes / John Cauman 99
year, and due to open in Paris at the independent, all is not lost. New work by Hubert Dalwood /
Grand Palais later this month. It is Practically none of the photographs Catherine Lampert 100
quite a tome, nearly an inch thick are reproductions of art works in the Ostend / John Russell 101
and 304 pages long ; most of its usual sense, some are of the kind Picasso / Roland Penrose 101
bulk is due to the compendium of which are presented as art statements One / Lucy Lippard 102
296 illustrations, a number of which in a gallery context, most are photos USA / Linda Cathcart 103
are in colour; a text and a chronology of art events, installations or Paris / Paul Rosenbloom 103
are also included but for more incidental details, a few are plain Germany / Gunther Wirth 104
information one is directed to Max news photos. The quality of Italy / Alessandro Mozzambani 104
Loreau's multi-volume Catalogue reproduction and the presentation Recent London shows / reviews
des traveaux de Jean Dubuffet on of the photographs is generally by Tim Hilton, Nicholas Wadley,
the one hand, and Dubuffet's quite good, and where a photo has Tony Rothon, John Milner,
collected writings on the other. The been rephotographed this is usually Catherine Lampert, Lynda Morris,
text of the catalogue written by disguised and yet suggested by Rosetta Brooks, Bernard Denvir 105
Margit Rowell incorporates many printing it, very effectively, in a
extracts from the artist's writings coarse screen so that it ends up like Rosetta Brooks is Assistant
which she has translated into a newspaper photo. This disparate Director of Gallery House London ...
English ; her own contribution is collection of images coheres into a Linda Cathcart is a freelance
quite informative, but in the end composite picture of the period of writer and art critic ... John
Dubuffet proves to be too slippery a the latter sixties and early seventies, Cauman is completing a book on
customer to net with words — even as it might have been viewed by visual concepts for children ...
his own. His anticultural position is someone whose experience of it Bernard Denvir is the London art
confounding, in spite of, or because was entirely through art magazines. critic for Art International.. .
of, his success within the cultural Tim Hilton is a contributing Editor
sphere. The largest corpus of photos yet to Studio International... Anthony
published of the work of Carel Hyde (Jr.) is a former editor/
Structure in Art is the catalogue of Visser, whose work is beginning to publisher of Foto Times, New York ...
the exhibition held at the University be seen and discussed more widely, Catherine Lampert is the newly
of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon early is in the catalogue of his 1972 appointed Exhibition Organizer
this year; as with other publications exhibition at the Gemeentemuseum for the Arts Council of Great Britain ...
emanating from this source it is a in the Hague entitled Carel Visser, Malcolm Le Grice is a film-maker
pleasure to look at, its design is very beelden — tekeningen — grafiek and teaches at St Martin's School
cool. The catalogue incorporates a (about £3). The text by J. L. of Art ...Lucy Lippard is a writer, critic
short essay 'The Russian Locher is in Dutch, but there are and art-historian. She has recently
Intelligentsia in the Service of the exactly one hundred illustrations completed a book on Ad Reinhardt ...
Revolution : 1917-1930' by Kenneth spread through the spacious 30 x 30 John Milner is lecturer in the Dept
C. Taylor, Professor of Soviet History cm pages representing twenty-five of Fine Art at the University of
at the University of Alberta, in the years of work. Newcastle upon Tyne ...
course of which he proposes Lynda Morris has recently
Rodchenko and Stepanova 'as the Fluxshoe was published in 1972 and completed her PhD at the Slade ...
leading figure(s) of costs £1.00 from the publishers, Alessandro Mozzambani is an
Constructivism', though without Beau Geste Press, Langford Court art critic living in Verona ...
really elaborating the claim. However, South, Cullompton, Devon. It Roland Penrose is President of
the main contention of the essay is accompanies the year-long the Institute of Contemporary Arts ...
that the importance of the Bauhaus exhibition as it zigzags its way Clive Phillpot is Librarian at
is better appreciated than that of the across Britain (or, to quote the Chelsea School of Art... Ronald Rees
ultimately more significant Russian catalogue, 'as it gravels throughout is lecturer at Birmingham College of
Futurism and Constructivism, partly the UK'). Fluxus was the subject of Art and Lanchester Polytechnic ...
because of the highlighting of the a special issue of Art and Artists in Tony Rothon has recently graduated
enlightenment of the Bauhaus October 1972 and a further briefer from the Slade ... Paul Rosenbloom
against the circumstances of its introduction to the non-movement is a painter and teaches at
European demise, as opposed to the and to the exhibition prefaces the Gloucestershire and Stourbridge
more obscure dimming of the Russian contents of Fluxshoe. Around 100 College of Art ... John Russell is
artists by the heirs of those who pages are given over to the art critic for the Sunday Times ...
shaped the political forces with contributing artists, who are from all Bud Shark is an artist and lectures
which the artists had earlier over the world, to present in printmaking at the Slade ...
completely identified their efforts. information, documentation, images, Nicholas Wadley is
The other noteworthy piece of etc., as they wish ; each contributor Head of the Department of Art
writing, 'The constructed relief as a generally acts upon one or two History and General Studies at
new medium' by Eli Bornstein, is a pages. There then follow thirty pages Chelsea School of Art ... John
useful sketch for a history of the of 'Facts' about most of the Walker is Assistant Librarian
medium from its origins in 'the contributors, generally biographical at the Hornsey Library of Art ...
colour planes of Cezanne' to today. and bibliographical details of variable Gunther Wirth is a German art
Since the author is who he is, and in significance and comprehensiveness, critic.
view of this specific starting point, and then finally a general
the final emphasis is unsurprisingly bibliography which includes (Items for review in the 'Feedback,
upon the evolution of the Structurist references to magazines, exhibition 'Graphics' and 'Vision' columns
Relief in particular. There are 27 catalogues and books. should be sent to Clive Phillpot,
plates, over a third of which are Bud Shark and Malcolm Le Grice
reproduced in colour, and their In his introduction to Fluxshoe respectively, all c/o Studio
selection also reflects the emphasis Kyosan Bajin refers to the fact that International, 14 West Central Street,
of the text. (Cost $5.00.) much of the work which artists London WC1.)

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