Victor Burgin
Radical British art in the 1970s (2009)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker - 10 Feb 09
Radical British art in the 1970s (2009) Art in crisis during a decade of crises: an overview of John A. Walker’s book Left Shift: Radical Art in 1970s Britain published by I.B. Tauris in 2002. Cover image: Jordan in Derek Jarman’s film Jubilee, (1978). Histories of visual culture in...
Radical Art in 1970s Britain: 1976 (2002)
→ Art Design Publicity magazineJohn A. Walker - 08 May 02
...Victor Burgin showed at the ICA and John Stezaker at the Nigel Greenwood Gallery. A Festival of Expanded Cinema was organized by the ICA. The performance Academic Board, devised by William Furlong and Bruce McLean, took place at the Battersea Arts Centre. The Women Artists Slide Library was...
Michael Craig-Martin: An Oak Tree (1974)
→ Art Design Publicity magazineJohn A. Walker - 01 Jan 99
...Victor Burgin and the Art & Language Group. (Craig-Martin continued to use objects and to produce paintings while Burgin employed texts and photographs, and early Art & Language issued journals of their writings.) Writing in 1995, David Lee described Craig-Martin as follows: “He is a...
State of the art - Channel 4 - 1987 (1993)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker - 05 Jun 93
State of the art - Channel 4 - 1987 (1993) Including the theme Value, commodity and criticism. State of the art: Ideas and images in the 1980s was an ambitious documentary series of six, one-hour programmes about contemporary art transmitted in Britain on Channel 4 in January and February...
Situation (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 17 Jun 92
...Victor Burgin had employed the similar term “situational aesthetics” to characterize the kind of quasi-conceptual pieces he was devising at the time. See also Environmental Art, Hard-edge Painting, St Ives School, Site-specific Art. References and further readings > Roger Coleman. Situation:...
Semiotics (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 17 Jun 92
...Victor Burgin valued the science because it increased his understanding of the mechanisms of photographic signs and the pictorial rhetoric of advertising, thus enabling him to deconstruct and construct signs for educational and critical purposes. At one time Semiotics was also considered a tool...
Political Art (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 15 Jun 92
...Victor Burgin has argued that it is not possible to politicize art because it is already political. What the artist can do is to change its politics.) In most societies, art has been a conservative force because it has served the interests and ideologies of the ruling powers: religion, the...
Pictorial Rhetoric (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 15 Jun 92
...Victor Burgin, for instance, adopted the mass medium of photography in order to make photo-text works and he also taught and wrote articles about the rhetorical devices of photography. “Guerrilla Rhetoric” was a term employed about work which undertook a politically motivated critique of...
Photo-Works (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 15 Jun 92
...Victor Burgin, James Collins, Jan Dibbets, Hamish Fulton, Gilbert & George, David Hockney, John Hilliard, Richard Long, Yve Lomax, Sarah McCarthy, Arnulf Rainer, Klaus Rinke, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol and Paul Wombell. These artists have contributed to a dozen different tendencies:...
Isotype (International System of TYpographic Picture Education) (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 09 Jun 92
...Victor Burgin produced a series of works combining Isotype signs, photographs and colour panels. See also Diagrams, Information Graphics. References and further readings > Otto Neurath. Empiricism and sociology (Dordrecht, Reidel, 1973). > Graphic communication through Isotype. (Reading,...
Formalism & Formalist Criticism (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 06 Jun 92
...Victor Burgin called “Socialist Formalism”. See also Modernist Painting, Objecthood, Presence. References and further readings > Clive Bell. Art (1914). (Arrow Books, 1961). > Victor Erlich. Russian Formalism. (The Hague, Mouton, 1955). > Barbara Reise. “Greenberg and the group: A...
Diagrams (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 04 Jun 92
...Victor Burgin, Lawrence Burt, John Hilliard, Joseph Kosuth, Ad Reinhardt, John Stezaker, Bernar Venet and Stephen Willats. One can also cite the use of diagrammatic layouts in tantra and yoga art, and in concrete poetry. An exhibition about the role of Diagrams in the discourse of art and art...
Conceptual Art (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 03 Jun 92
...Victor Burgin, Douglas Huebler, On Kawara, John Stezaker, Bernar Venet, Lawrence Weiner and lan Wilson. Conceptual artists, critical of the individualism of earlier art, often collaborated or worked collectively. They were also keen on forming groups and organizations. Besides Art &...
