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BRITISH ART STUDIES JOURNAL Issue 3, Summer 2016

7 September 2016
Installation view, Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form (1969), image courtesy of Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2011.M.30) (Series IV.A, Attitudes, Shunk) / Photo: Harry Shunk

Jon Wood’s essay ‘British Sculpture Abroad in the 1960s’ discusses Flanagan’s early work in an international context. Wood details Flanagan’s two space rope sculpture, (gr 2 sp 60): 2 sp rope 2 ’67/69, (1967) illustrated above in Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form, in 1969. Read here.

Installation view The British Avant Garde at the New York Cultural Centre (1971), Charles Harrison papers (1970s–2000s), TGA 200868, London

Jo Melvin’s essay ‘The British Avant Garde: A Joint Venture Between the New York Cultural Centre and Studio International Magazine’ discusses the importance of the exhibition The British Avant Garde at the New York Cultural Centre in 1971. Flanagan showed sixteen works including no. 1 ’71 (1971),  fpre su (1965) and 4 casb 2 ’67 (1967) illustrated above with Bruce McLean’s drawings in the background. Read here.

'may 1’70' (1970), © Estate of Barry Flanagan, courtesy Plubronze Ltd

The site sensitivity of Flanagan’s early work such as may 1’70′ (1970) shown here at the 10th Toyko Biennale in 1970, and a hole in the sea (1969) are discussed in Elena Crippa’s ‘1970s: ‘Out of Sculpture’. Read here.

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