https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/latham-derelict-land-art-five-sisters-t02071
John Latham- 1975-76- undertook a placement within the Scottish Development Office, who invited him to come up with a plan for dealing with ‘bings’, huge heaps of coal waste. their monumental and ‘classical nature’, Latham decided they should be preserved as monuments, which eliminates the need for their costly removal.
an art practice nudging into social practice. what is the importance of art that is political?
Tony Cragg, Stack, 1975
manufactured objects and materials, condensed into a cube-like structure resembling geological layers. relationships between materials and objects and how things come to be, through means of cooperative labour, how these items become ‘fossilised’ and a way of seeing and measuring our impact on the environment.
how can artworks be useful?
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jul/28/jeremy-dellers-the-history-of-the-world-a-cultural-backlash
Jeremy Deller- A History of the World, 1998
finding links and commonalities between the miners strike and rave scene.
Common to both sides is an inability to regard artists as anything more than isolated individuals who are dependent on either government generosity or free market fortune. Advocates of free artistic expression picture artists as atomistic individuals having equal rights to pursue their own projects. Those who champion authoritative traditional values view contemporary artists as undesirable deviants on the margins of society. Both sides fail to recognize the way in which artists are full-fledged members of social institutions and cultural communities. Recognition of such membership, I suggest, would help remove the impasse into which civil libertarians and religious fundamentalists have brought debates about government funding for the arts.
Zuidervaart, Lambert. Art in Public : Politics, Economics, and a Democratic Culture, Cambridge University Press, 2010. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ed/detail.action?docID=605116.
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