Page 68 - Studio International - May 1974

Contributors also of books, exhibition catalogues Two abstracting services were following item which is seen as
and other published material dealing launched at the end of 1973, both evidence of the illogicality of the
Clive Phillpot is Librarian at Chelsea with art since the late nineteenth largely concerned with publications discrimination by the museums
School of Art ... Malcolm LeGrice century, entitled LOMA Literature of 1972. Art Bibliographies Modern against those artists whose major
is a film-maker and teaches at on modern art: an annual bibliography, vol. 4, no. 1,1973 published by medium is film —failing to collect
St Martin's School of Art ... and which covered many of the Clio Press (address above) represents their work, and relegating its
John Walker is an artist, writer and
publications of 1969 from all over the the metamorphosis of LOMA 1971 presentation to the Education
art librarian ... Paul Martin is an
world, was published by Lund from an annual index to an abstracting Department. Still with the Stedelijk;
artist and teaches sculpture at Humphries and compiled by journal. It is intended to publish ABM concurrently on 18 January could be
Goldsmith's College, London ... Alexander Davis. This volume was twice a year (vol. 4, no. 2, should have seen work by Oppenheim and
Liesbeth Corstius is an art historian
followed by LOMA 1970, also from been published by the time you read Nicolson. One of the installations in
and editor of Het Museumjournaal
Lund Humphries in 1972, and this). It consists basically of artist and the Dennis Oppenheim show was a
Gunther Wirth is a German art critic
LOMA 1971 which was published subject entries and cross-references very good film piece —three loop
REVIEW
living in Stuttgart ... Keith Albarn
in 1973 by ABC—CLIO Press in all in one A—Z sequence supplemented projectors throwing wall-sized images
is co-author of The Language of America and England from 30, by a detailed author index. The of a huge hand striking a wall, with
2
Pattern, recently published by
Cornmarket Street, Oxford OX1 3EY 'modern' period covered is defined as synchronized sound of the impact;
Thames and Hudson ...R. C. Kenedy
(under the title Art Bibliographies commencing at 1800. There are 2233 the determination and transformation
is Assistant Keeper of the National
Modern 1971). The three volumes of entries, and the abstracts (which do of the time/space was the result of a
Art Library, Victoria and Albert LOMA are still available from Clio not accompany all entries) are all in strong physical experience (quite
Museum ... Tony Rothon recently
Press at £5.00, £9.50 and £15.00 English. These are early days for this unlike his inadequate, substitute
returned from a spell in Spain on a respectively. Alexander Davis's service, and one will need to wait and documentation films which the
Spanish government scholarship ... fourth annual bibliography has just see just how effective its coverage Stedelijk might well end up buying).
Judy Marie is a free-lance art appeared, its full title is Art Design becomes, and how efficiently its Downstairs in the weekly 'film show'
critic ... Paul Rosenbloom is Photo 1972, (an) Annual bibliography retrieval mechanisms develop, at section, Annabel Nicolson presented
a painter and teaches at of books, catalogues and articles present apart from cross references a string of equally strong, equally
Gloucestershire and Stourbridge on modern art, graphic design, there is no complementary index to important and conceptually
Colleges of Art ... Fenella Crichton photography, art libraries, it is subjects scattered by the primary challenging film pieces combining
is London Correspondent of Art published by Alexander Davis arrangement. projection with live reading and action
International ... Christopher Fox Publications, but distributed by The other abstracting service concerned, for example, with the
is a free-lance writer on art ... Idea Books, 18 Endell Street, London RILA, Repertoire international de la nature of the screen and projection
James Faure Walker is a painter ...
WC2H 9BD. littérature de l'art based at the Sterling space.
Robert Corbett is a collector of
ADP 1972 (to simplify its title) and Francine Clark Art Institute, I am not saying the work is the
paintings... Frank Whitford is Senior
contains 5345 references to items Williamstown, Mass. 01267, U.S.A., same, they are two individual
Lecturer in art history at Homerton
published in 1972, together with has put out a 'Demonstration Issue artists, but the similarity in their
College, Cambridge...
some technically published in 1971 1973', part specimen part Aunt Sally, conception of film's possibilities is
Feedback but actually not available until 1972 prior to regular quarterly publication, plain. Their virtual juxtaposition
within the Museum should be
so that criticisms can be digested
and although it is described as
This issue of Studio International 'a new annual bibliography' it can and possibly dealt with by the time it sufficient demonstration that the
contains a great deal of information 'be used as a continuation of (the) goes into full production later this continuing arbitrary distinction
information that ranges from precise former annual bibliography LOMA'. year. It consists of a sequence of between the artist's film and the
facts such as the telephone number 214 periodicals (including annual abstracts in broad chronological film-maker's film just won't stand
of a particular gallery to a substantial publications and reprinted periodicals, classes subdivided into Architecture, up. Before this is taken as a vendetta
informative article in which pieces of e.g. Cercle et Carré in 1972) are Sculpture, Pictorial Arts, Artists etc., against the Stedelijk, I must point
verbal and possibly pictorial comprehensively indexed, but as well and complemented by a very detailed out that theirs was a major
information have been arranged in a as indexing regular and 'little' author-subject index. The period initiative running such an extensive
certain manner and for a particular magazines, general magazines such covered is post-classical European review of underground film within
purpose. The advertisements are also as The Listener, Newsweek and art and post -Conquest American their educational programme. The
generally informative rather than Paris Match and newspapers such as art (in periodicals, books, catalogues problem is general....
persuasive. In the issue for December The Guardian, New York Times and etc.) but in fact 'modern' art (from
1973 Studio International bound in an Le Monde are scanned for articles on 1800) accounts directly and Film at the Tate
index to certain aspects of the content modern art. ADP 1972 is arranged in indirectly for about a third of the Though it does not match the
of those issues of the magazine three sequences : Artists A—Z, with content. There are 1789 entries, and Stedelijk film programme, the main
published in the last half of the year, 3481 entries, and Subjects A—Z, with the abstracts are also all in English. initiative towards film at the Tate has
a welcome return to former practice. 1864 entries, each of these sections It is an enterprise which has gathered come almost entirely through the
This index is a simple one which being substantially enlarged by material from several European and education department. However,
displays the information gathered numerous cross references, finally American institutions and since the three 'Structural Film'
into six sequences, from which, if you both sections are complemented by an publications. It is perhaps worth screenings there in June last year,
know what you are looking for, you index with around 3000 references. pointing out that Arts Magazine their film programme has consisted
can find page references. But what The only approach not covered by is a notable absentee from the major almost entirely of documentaries on
if you cannot remember whether it this arrangement is the location of all modern art journals abstracted, even artists, with no further presentation of
was in this magazine that you read a the writings of a particular critic or allowing for RILA's primary interest the art of film. This is not surprising
particular article, or have forgotten historian in any year. in scholarly journals, particularly with film presentation seen only as the
when it was published ? And what can Another kind of publication long when Art News is included. responsibility of the education
you do if you want to find out if a familiar in the sciences has also Finally a few words about costs. department, who after all, in showing
particular artist has written anything appeared in the fine art field, the Art Index and Art Bibliographies documentaries, are fulfilling their
himself, or has been written about abstracting journal. The function of Modern are sold to Libraries on a main function. There are belated
by others ? One course of action is to such journals is to list and index service rate principle, which is often signs that the Tate is beginning to
go to a library and consult Art Index, periodical articles and other in the region of £100 p.a., Art Design accept film as a medium of plastic
published by the H. W. Wilson publications, and to succeed the bare Photo costs £8.00 and RILA will cost art : throughout May there will be an
Company in the U.S.A., which if you bibliographical details with a summary individuals about £10.00 p.a., and extensive review of the film work of
are lucky enough to find a complete of the content. Thus if one looks institutions about £25.00 p.a. David Hall and Tony Sinden. No
run will take you back as far as 1929, through an abstracting journal one Clive Phillpot criticism of the work is intended, but
though the periodicals which it can find out what articles or it is unfortunate and predictable
indexes may not necessarily include publications exist on a particular Vision that the first film-artist to get
the one in which you read the article, topic or artist, and from reading the extensive presentation is one whose
if it was not one of the more familiar abstract decide whether the approach Film in Museums cont.... initial reputation was made as a
magazines. or content of the article is relevant to Last month I began a general sculptor. The Tate have also recently
More recently another possible aid one's needs, in which case one uses consideration of the problem of film purchased Dan Graham's Two
has appeared, for in 1971 a publication the bibliographical reference to in museums and art galleries, in Correlated Rotations. Graham is one
devoted to the comprehensive identify the source of the information, particular in Holland and at the of the few 'gallery' artists whose film
indexing not only of periodicals, but and can then take steps to obtain it. Stedelijk. There was no space for the work gets beyond documentation,