Raven row uk (4 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Near fine in wraps. First Edition. 24 x 31cm near fine exhibition catalogue in the form of the magazine 'Studio International'. Contents of five issues reproduced: Studio International Vol. 171, No. 876, April 1966/Vol. 175, No. 900 May 1968/Vol. 178, No. 914, September 1969/Vol. 180, No. 924, July/August 1970/Vol.184, No. 946, July/August 1972.…

Paperback. Condición: As new, shrinkwrapped. First Edition. 22 x 28cm as new, shrinkwrapped exhibition catalogue. This is the first survey of work by Stephen Willats from the sixties. Willats (born and lives in London) was introduced to art as a teenage gallery assistant in 1958 and by 1962 was producing advanced artwork. He embraced the transdiscipli?n?arity of the time, juggling the roles of social scientist, engineer, designer and artist, and developed an art about social interaction, using models derived from cybernetics, the hybrid post-war science of communication. As well as the clothing and furniture made in 1965 when he briefly described himself as a conceptual designer , Willats s earliest sculptural series of Manual Variables is haptic and interactive. These are shown alongside early issues of Control, the still-operating magazine he founded in the same period. Its title is a provocation, invoking the cybernetic idea that people can take control of their environments, thereby deflecting the controls of a dominant hierarchy.…

Paperback. Condición: Near fine in wraps. First Edition. 18 x 26cm 64pp stapled wrappers with some illustrations. Exhibition catalogue.

Card covers, stapled spine. Condición: Very good in wraps. 22 x 29cm very good exhibition catalogue, stapled spine includes texts, colour plus black and white reproductions. Raymond Edward "Ray" Johnson was an American artist. Known primarily as a collagist and correspondence artist, he was a seminal figure in the history of Neo-Dada and early Pop art and was described as "New York's most famous unknown artist". Johnson also staged and participated in early performance art events as the founder of a far-ranging mail art network - the New York Correspondence School - which picked up momentum in the 1960s and is still active today. The catalogue comes with some ephemeral cuttings.…