Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
Ebook150 pages4 hours
London's Arts Labs and the 60s Avant-Garde
By David Curtis
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
About this ebook
This is the story of two short-lived artist-run spaces that are associated with some of the most innovative developments in the arts in Britain in the late 1960s. The Drury Lane Arts Lab (1967–69) was home to the first UK screenings of Andy Warhol's twin-screen 3 hour film Chelsea Girls, challenging exhibitions (John and Yoko / John Latham / Takis / Roelof Louw), poetry and music (first UK performance of Erik Satie's 24-hour Vexations) and fringe theatre (People Show / Freehold / Jane Arden's Vagina Rex and the Gas Oven / Will Spoor Mime Theatre). The Robert Street 'New Arts Lab' (1969–71) housed Britain's first video workshop TVX, the London Filmmakers Co-op's first workshop and a 5-days-a-week cinema devoted to showing new work by moving-image artists (David Larcher / Malcolm Le Grice / Sally Potter / Carolee Schneemann / Peter Gidal). It staged J G Ballard's infamous Crashed Cars exhibition and John & Dianne Lifton's pioneering computer-aided dance/mime performances.
The impact of London's Labs led to an explosion of new artist-led spaces across Britain. This book relates the struggles of FACOP (Friends of the Arts Council Operative) to make the case for these new kinds of space and these new art-forms and the Arts Council's hesitant response – in the context of a popular press already hostile to youth culture, experimental art and the 'underground'. With a Foreword by Andrew Wilson, Curator Modern & Contemporary British Art and Archives, Tate Gallery.
Author
David Curtis
David Curtis is one of the country’s best-known painters, with a number of prestigious art awards. His work is widely exhibited and is also published as fine-art cards and prints. He is the author of the bestselling Light and Mood in Watercolours and Capturing the Moment in Oils
Related to London's Arts Labs and the 60s Avant-Garde
Related ebooks
On Stage: The theatrical dimension of video imaged The Studio Reader: On the Space of Artists Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAll This Stuff: Archiving the Artist Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKiffy Rubbo: curating the 1970s Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe synthetic proposition: Conceptualism and the political referent in contemporary art Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTowards a Civic Theatre Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLiving with Buildings: And Walking with Ghosts – On Health and Architecture Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAnarchists, Beats and Dadaists Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHow Not to Exclude Artist Mothers (and Other Parents) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWilliam Kentridge: Being Led by the Nose Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Lost World of Music Hall: A celebration of ten greats Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFor the Artists: Critical Writing, Volume 2 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSophie Taeuber-Arp Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDerek Jarman - Moving Pictures of a Painter: Home Movies, Super 8 Films and Other Small Gestures Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEssays on Modern Art: Hannah Wilke Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNine Lives: Postwar Women Writers Making Their Mark Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Chaplin Machine: Slapstick, Fordism and the Communist Avant-Garde Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Adventure of the Real: Jean Rouch and the Craft of Ethnographic Cinema Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Art Museum In America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEighteenth-Century Brechtians: Theatrical Satire in the Age of Walpole Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDreaming Red: Creating ArtPace Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRedeeming Art: Critical Reveries Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsArchitectures of Illusion: From Motion Pictures to Navigable Interactive Environments Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMistress, Model, Muse and Mentor: Women In the Lives of Famous Artists Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCulture and Contestation in the New Century Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThis Model World: Travels to the Edge of Contemporary Art Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAcross the Art/Life Divide: Performance, Subjectivity, and Social Practice in Contemporary Art Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlank Canvas: Art School Creativity From Punk to New Wave Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAndy Warhol, Publisher Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Art of Return: The Sixties & Contemporary Culture Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Performing Arts For You
The Quite Nice and Fairly Accurate Good Omens Script Book: The Script Book Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Hollywood's Dark History: Silver Screen Scandals Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Romeo and Juliet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Best Women's Monologues from New Plays, 2020 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Hamlet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Diamond Eye: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Comedy Bible: From Stand-up to Sitcom--The Comedy Writer's Ultimate "How To" Guide Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Trial Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Is This Anything? Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Coreyography: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The World Turned Upside Down: Finding the Gospel in Stranger Things Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lucky Dog Lessons: From Renowned Expert Dog Trainer and Host of Lucky Dog: Reunions Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wuthering Heights Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Art of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How I Learned to Drive (Stand-Alone TCG Edition) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Slave Play Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mash: A Novel About Three Army Doctors Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Count Of Monte Cristo (Unabridged) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Woman Is No Man: A Read with Jenna Pick Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Strange Loop Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Our Town: A Play in Three Acts Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Robin Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fifth Mountain: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related podcast episodes
The Importance of Personal Art Goals 0% found this document usefulSonia Boyce 0% found this document usefulTracey Emin 0% found this document usefulBarbara Kruger: THIS WEEK on the GWA Podcast, @katy.hessel interv… 0% found this document usefulEpisode 71: The Medium is the Message 0% found this document usefulPatricia Bickers, "The Ends of Art Criticism" (Lund Humphries Publishers, 2021): An interview with Patricia Bickers 0% found this document usefulHilma Af Klint | What a Human Being Is (encore): Hilma Af Klint | What a Human Being Is (encore) 0% found this document usefulCreativity As a Balm (with Beth Pickens!) 0% found this document usefulMarina Abramović 0% found this document usefulWomen in Art with Katy Hessel and Lizzy Stewart 0% found this document usefulEs Devlin CBE 0% found this document useful36 — Bernard Rudofsky & 'Architecture Without Architects' 0% found this document useful82. Paula Cooper 0% found this document usefulA brush with... Michael Raedecker 0% found this document useful4. Music & Nightlife 0% found this document useful
Related articles
HOME AWAY from STUDIO L'OFFICIEL USAArticle
HOME AWAY from STUDIO
Dec 8, 2020
10 min readDancing Into The Museum Art Guide AustraliaArticle
Dancing Into The Museum
Jul 2, 2023
8 min readBeyond The Tears Country LifeArticle
Beyond The Tears
Jan 22, 2020
3 min readRobert Polito on the Art of Iconoclastic Film Critic Manny Farber Literary HubArticle
Robert Polito on the Art of Iconoclastic Film Critic Manny Farber
Nov 18, 2019
8 min readShe Was Sort of Crazy: On Women Artists The Paris ReviewArticle
She Was Sort of Crazy: On Women Artists
Jan 31, 2019
8 min readArthur Cravan, the Original Troll The Paris ReviewArticle
Arthur Cravan, the Original Troll
Jan 5, 2018
9 min readOn the Storylines That Kept Early Humans Alive Literary HubArticle
On the Storylines That Kept Early Humans Alive
Feb 10, 2020
5 min readFallen Star Art New ZealandArticle
Fallen Star
Aug 11, 2022
12 min readJohn Akomfrah, On the Verge The Paris ReviewArticle
John Akomfrah, On the Verge
Dec 19, 2018
9 min readAirea D. Matthews: Texting with Anne Sexton Literary HubArticle
Airea D. Matthews: Texting with Anne Sexton
Mar 22, 2017
For the second installment in a monthly series of interviews with contemporary poets (read part one here), Peter Mishler corresponded with poet Airea D. Matthews. Airea D. Matthews’s first collection of poems, Simulacra, received the 2016 Yale Series
7 min readPina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring The Paris ReviewArticle
Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring
Oct 11, 2017
7 min readInterview Kiki Smith Art Guide AustraliaArticle
Interview Kiki Smith
Mar 1, 2022
7 min readUnraveling the Questions Art & AntiquesArticle
Unraveling the Questions
Sep 1, 2022
4 min readManuela Infante Makes Space For Ideas AMERICAN THEATREArticle
Manuela Infante Makes Space For Ideas
Apr 25, 2019
6 min readAttached To Strings: Puppetry Proves Lasting In The Age Of Screens The Christian Science MonitorArticle
Attached To Strings: Puppetry Proves Lasting In The Age Of Screens
Nov 4, 2019
Theater and craftsmanship are part of the enduring appeal of puppets, 3D entertainment that is not just for kids.
3 min readTALKING POINTS The Write Stuff BBC History MagazineArticle
TALKING POINTS The Write Stuff
Aug 6, 2020
1 min readWeaving Webs Of Existence Home & DecorArticle
Weaving Webs Of Existence
Oct 29, 2020
5 min readRadical Portraiture Art & AntiquesArticle
Radical Portraiture
Apr 1, 2021
5 min readWhat Is Ugly? The AtlanticArticle
What Is Ugly?
Nov 7, 2013
3 min readThe Joy Of Painting Art & AntiquesArticle
The Joy Of Painting
Jul 1, 2020
9 min readOn Balance Art Guide AustraliaArticle
On Balance
Mar 1, 2022
3 min readA Companion to Curation Artist ProfileArticle
A Companion to Curation
Nov 4, 2020
If there was ever a book that should be top of the bibliographic list for students studying art institutions and curatorial practice(s) of the past, present and future, this is it – A Companion to Curation edited by well-known Australian artist acade
6 min readThe Fantastical Little Dyer The American ScholarArticle
The Fantastical Little Dyer
Mar 4, 2019
OF THE THREE GREAT ARTISTS who dominated Venetian painting for much of the 16th century, Tintoretto was the wildest and most avant-garde. In 1568, the Tuscan artist and biographer Giorgio Vasari, who had met Tintoretto in Venice and liked him, report
8 min readEdges of Illusion ApertureArticle
Edges of Illusion
Sep 6, 2022
6 min readLooking for Transcendence ApertureArticle
Looking for Transcendence
Dec 10, 2019
7 min readWifredo Lam The Imagination at Work ArtAsiaPacificArticle
Wifredo Lam The Imagination at Work
Mar 3, 2022
2 min readA New Exhibition Shows Women as Artists, Not Muses The AtlanticArticle
A New Exhibition Shows Women as Artists, Not Muses
Oct 29, 2019
4 min readThe Mirror and the Palette Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience: 500 Years of Women’s Self-Portraits Artist ProfileArticle
The Mirror and the Palette Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience: 500 Years of Women’s Self-Portraits
Nov 1, 2022
The Mirror and the Palette Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience: 500 Years of Women’s Self-Portraits Jennifer Higgie Hachette RRP $24.99 AUD “She looks at herself, again and again. She’s in London or Paris or Helsinki or Sydney. She’s in a village by
4 min readThe Purist Art & AntiquesArticle
The Purist
Apr 1, 2021
8 min readListening To The Past ArtAsiaPacificArticle
Listening To The Past
Sep 2, 2021
3 min read
Reviews for London's Arts Labs and the 60s Avant-Garde
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
London's Arts Labs and the 60s Avant-Garde - David Curtis
Enjoying the preview?
Page 1 of 1