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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.
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.
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.
