"The Independent Group, or the IG, as it was called, is best known for having launched Pop Art. But the young artists, architects, and critics who met informally at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts in the early 1950s were actually embarked on a far more subversive and constructive mission than the founding of an art movement. ... [details]
March 1971 issue of Studio International, edited by Peter Townsend. Contents include: "Project 84," by David Dickson; "Date with fate at the Tate," by Felipe Ehrenberg; "News and Notes;" "Correspondence;" "Haacke, Sonfist and Nature," by Jonathan Benthall; "Christo," by Lawrence Alloway; "Tantric imagery: affinities with twentieth-century abstract art," by Virginia Whiles; "Robert Medley's new paintings," by Bryan Robertson; "Commentary," by John Russell; "Albert Irvin," by Andrew Forge; "Andy Warhol and Ad Reinhardt," by Max Kozloff; "The conditional probability machine: a new work by Eduardo Paolozzi," by Diane Kirkpatrick; "Between spring and ocean," by Klaus Rinke; "Lawrence Weiner," by Anthony Lovell; "Works by Lawrence Weiner;" "Supplement: new and recent art books," reviews by Jonathan Benthall, Bernard Denvir, Andrew Forge, Peter Gidal, Andrew Higgens, Timothy Hilton, Colin Moorcraft, John Picton, Barbara Reise, and Frank Whitford. ... [details]