Art Metropole: The Top 100 (National Gallery of Canada)
(Exhibition catalog)
2006Scott, Kitty et al
137 pages
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Active 1968-1979. Known for: Collective of artists known for large-scale paintings.
Description of one of collective's works auctioned at Christie's in November, 2011. Incident in a Museum VI is a unique, large-scale painting by the British collective, Art & Language. Created in... Read full biography
Description of one of collective's works auctioned at Christie's in November, 2011. Incident in a Museum VI is a unique, large-scale painting by the British collective, Art & Language. Created in 1986 over three inserted and intersecting canvases, the work presents a museum gallery, here based on... Read full biography
Description of one of collective's works auctioned at Christie's in November, 2011. Incident in a Museum VI is a unique, large-scale painting by the British collective, Art & Language. Created in 1986 over three inserted and intersecting canvases, the work presents a museum gallery, here based on the internal architecture of the Whitney Museum, New York. The heavy, stone floors and coffered ceilings of the Whitney are instantly recognizable, but sheathed in an unnatural, highly gestural palette... Read full biography
Description of one of collective's works auctioned at Christie's in November, 2011. Incident in a Museum VI is a unique, large-scale painting by the British collective, Art & Language. Created in 1986 over three inserted and intersecting canvases, the work presents a museum gallery, here based on the internal architecture of the Whitney Museum, New York. The heavy, stone floors and coffered ceilings of the Whitney are instantly recognizable, but sheathed in an unnatural, highly gestural palette of blue and white. Upon the wall of the museum is a painting, one of the collective's own, installed in some imaginary retrospective; the attendant irony being that as a British assembly, Art & Language would never be granted such an exhibition. In... Read full biography
Description of one of collective's works auctioned at Christie's in November, 2011. Incident in a Museum VI is a unique, large-scale painting by the British collective, Art & Language. Created in 1986 over three inserted and intersecting canvases, the work presents a museum gallery, here based on the internal architecture of the Whitney Museum, New York. The heavy, stone floors and coffered ceilings of the Whitney are instantly recognizable, but sheathed in an unnatural, highly gestural palette of blue and white. Upon the wall of the museum is a painting, one of the collective's own, installed in some imaginary retrospective; the attendant irony being that as a British assembly, Art & Language would never be granted such an exhibition. In Index: Incident in a Museum VI each canvas carries the image of the gallery, the smallest of the three appearing as a scaled reproductioChristie's... Read full biography
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Art Metropole: The Top 100 (National Gallery of Canada)
2006Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s
1999Bann, Stephen, et al279 pagesMannersm (sic): A Theory of Culture (Vancouver Art Gallery_
1982Buchan, David et al78 pages