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Books collection of texts previously
published in art periodicals.
Van Gogh in Perspective edited by However, this is a handy source
Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov. book for those who do not possess
xii, 178pp, 12 plates, 25 illustrations, copies of the original articles.
bibliography. Englewood Cliffs, John A. Walker
New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, 1974. REVIEW
£1.30
An anthology of short articles on News & notes
Van Gogh ranging from early
critical appraisals and reminiscences A German Month is being held at
by his contemporaries Bernard, the Institute of Contemporary Arts,
Gauguin, Aurier, and Hartrick, to London during November. The 3
more recent iconographic and aim will be to show the extent to
stylistic studies by such scholars which German culture has been
as Kurt Badt, Roger Fry and Meyer dominated by politically and
Schapiro. This volume belongs to socially aware ideologies. There will
the extremely useful new series be an exhibition : 'Art into Society—
'artists in perspective' edited by Society into Art, Seven German
H. W. Janson. Artists', the artists being Albrecht
The international museum of erotic D., Joseph Beuys, K. P. Brehmer,
art by Drs Phyllis and Eberhard Hans Haacke, Dieter Hacker,
Kronhausen. 64pp, 58 illustrations, Gustav Metzger and Klaus Staeck.
15 in colour. San Francisco, Michael Reutz, a photographer, will
International Museum of Erotic Art, provide a documentation of the
540 Powell St, 1973. £1.60 historical and social background. The colloquium held at Hackert's 7 Produzentengalerie Berlin, in April, to discuss the show.
(paperback) Beuys will be present throughout the Back row from left to right: Staeck, his assistant, Hacker, Joachimedes (co-organizer),
video-cameraman, roadie, Mrs Hacker; front row: Brehmer, Caroline Tisdall, Beuys, Rosenthal
A catalogue containing a selection month when he hopes to present a (co-organizer), Reutz. Photo courtesy Reutz
from the Kronhausen collection model of his Düsseldorf 'Free
originally presented at the first and School of Creativity'. All the artists
second international exhibitions of will be present fora symposium
erotic art held in Sweden and which will take place on 31 October.
Denmark in 1968 and 1969. There will also be an architectural
Soviet political posters. 21 pp, 32 show of work by Hans Scharoun,
plates, 32 coloured illustrations. films, lectures and a two-week who were given £15,000 by the Jack Wendler has closed his
Leningrad, Aurora Art Publishers; Spielstrasse (playstreet), organized Arts Council to distribute to intermedia gallery at 164 North Gower Street,
London, Collet's, 1974. £2.50 by Werner Ruhnau, within which events. The NAC established that London NW1 but will continue to
This portfolio contains thirty-two avant-garde musicians such as artistic affairs should be handled by use the premises as an office for the
coloured reproductions (printed on Schnebel, Reidl, Hoffmann, the artists themselves, that the panel time being.
boards) of Russian posters produced Rosenberg and theatrical groups should meet each applicant, that no Some future Arts Council Shows:
between 1919 and 1971. These will perform. In the last fortnight applicant should be silenced or 'Paul Klee's late works, which
rather dull posters are categorized in there is a play based on work by sifted out in advance by the Arts were shown at the Edinburgh
the short, bombastic introduction Enzensberger and Ha ndke, followed Council, that the grant should cover Festival, will be at the Bristol City
(in English) as 'a specific form of by a cabaret with German singing the full needs of the scheme, and that Art Gallery 10 October-23 November
agitational art' — they exhort the star Evelyn Kunnecke. their decisions should be made and the Hayward Gallery, London
Russians to work harder, to defend As Beuys will be teaching for a public and could be questioned by 13 December-12 January 1975.
the motherland, to strive for peace month at the ICA (29 October- anyone at the time. Since then the 'An Anthology of British
and to revere Lenin. No examples 24 November), school and student NAC has suffered at the hands of Photography 1839-1950' will be
by Lissitzky or Rodchenko. groups wishing to take part should bureaucracy by being changed into at the Hayward Gallery 17 January-
Engravings by Hogarth edited by ring Norman Rosenthal on the Experimental Projects Committee 23 February 1975, Bristol City Art
Sean Shesgreen. xxxiii, 205 pp, (01) 839 5344 beforehand. and now the Performance Art Gallery 8 March-13 April, Sheffield
101 illustrations. New York, Dover, Artists Now have recently published Committee. Artists Now proposes Graves Art Gallery 21 June-27 July
1973; London, Constable 1974. a report 'Patronage of the Creative an independent public inquiry into and Bolton Museum and Art
£3.36 Artist'. The report severely criticizes the plight of creative artists and that Gallery 9 August-13 September.
A large -format paperback the Arts Council for the rift between as the Arts Council is unequipped 'Jasper Johns' at Oxford Museum
containing a selection of Hogarth's the help given to the performing arts to deal with individual artists there of Modern Art 7 September-13
burlesque engravings of scenes from and the creative arts that has now should be a second Arts Council or October, Sheffield Mappin Art
the life of the English mercantile become too serious to ignore. For Council of Artists. They also propose Gallery 19 October-17 November,
class. It includes all his major series instance the awards to artists in an Art Market scheme, workshops Coventry Herbert Art Gallery 30
or progresses. Each of the plates England for 1966/67 (composers, for dramatists, a national poetry November-29 December and
is accompanied by a commentary dramatists, painters, sculptors, anthology, a publishing firm and Liverpool Walker Art Gallery 4
and Shesgreen's erudite introduction authors, and trainees) was £76,297 symphonic performances. The feeling January-2 February 1975.
discusses the prints under such whilst the National Theatre on the report amongst artists is that 'The Late Richard Dadd', which was
headings as 'plot', 'character', etc. publicity and wardrobe departments it is three years out of date and that at the Tate Gallery, will be at the Hull
On art: artist's writings on the spent £81,524 and the Arts Council's no real action is proposed if it is Ferens Art Gallery 22 September-
changed notion of art after 1965 own wages and salaries were brushed under the carpet. 'Artists 20 October, Wolverhampton Art
edited by Gerd de Vries. 307 pp, £164,539. The report says that the Now' consists of Ian Bruce, David Gallery 26 October-24 November
45 plates; illustrated, bibliography. Arts Council is distributing money Castillejo, Christopher Cornford, and Bristol City Art Gallery 30
Cologne, Dumont Schauberg, 1974 in small useless portions instead of Charles Gosford and Francis Routh. November-4 January 1975.
DM 29 using it bravely and dangerously by 'Patronage of the Creative Artist' 'Art as Thought Process', which
Another German/English edition building something large for artists is available from 'Artists Now,' includes works bought last year by
from Dumont in the Kunst-Praxis to show in. It analyses grants to 107 Arlington Road, London NW1. Michael Compton for the Arts
series. The blurb describes the book regional bodies but says that if Price £1.00. Council, wil I be at Southend
as the 'first comprehensive collection these huge sums reached visual Francois Morellet, one of the Beecroft Art Gallery 7 September-
of major theoretical writings by artists they would be able to help artists who took part in the sculpture 6 October, Huddersfield Art Gallery
'artists of international reputation' themselves, but instead the money symposium at Gorinchem, Holland 16 November-8 December,
(the contributors are : Andre, is being absorbed by administration during June, was unable to do his Kettering Art Gallery 18 January-
Art and Language, Buren, Burgin, 'as by a sponge'. Attempts to project— neon tubes on a windmill. 16 February 1975, Coventry Herbert
Burn, Ramsden, Huebler, Judd, persuade the Council to help living The windmill is a religious object in Art Gallery 22 March-20 April and
Kosuth, Lewitt, Morris, Roehr and artists have met with rebuffs : for Holland and so is regarded as sacred, Dartington College 24 May-15 June.
Weiner). A somewhat predictable instance the New Activities Committee like the cow in India. Compiled by Paul Martin