John Latham
1921–2006
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John Aubrey Clarendon Latham, (23 February 1921 – 1 January 2006) was a Zambia-born British conceptual artist.
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John Latham in Focus
John Latham: Extracts from an Extended Conversation in Flat Time HO 210 Bellenden Road
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Auto-destructive art
Auto-destructive art is a term invented by the artist Gustav Metzger in the early 1960s to describe radical artworks made ...
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Artist Placement Group
The Artist Placement Group was founded in 1966 with the aim of placing artists in government, commercial and industrial organisations
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Conceptual Art in Britain: Five reasons to visit
Ahead of Conceptual Art in Britain: 1964-1979 at Tate Britain, we round up the top artists and works featured in ...
Tate Etc
Experimental fields of light and shadow: Light projections in The Tanks
For many centuries artists have been fascinated by the magical, visceral power of projected light as action, as a performative ...
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Waste to Monument: John Latham’s Niddrie Woman: Art & Environment
John Latham’s Artist Placement Group residency at the Scottish Office’s Development Agency in 1975–6 led to a ...
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Beginning of the end, or end of the beginning: Tate Britain Commission 2012
Artist and filmmaker Patrick Keiller is best known for his essay films that chart the progress of the fictional character ...
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Poem of the Month - A Charred Life by George Szirtes on John Latham's The Observer IV
Each month, Tate Etc. publishes new poetry by leading poets who respond to works from the Tate collection. Poet George ...
Tate Papers
The Legacy of Interaction: Artists at the Imperial War Museum 1981–2007
The idea that artists might reinvigorate and activate collections in new ways no longer seems a radical concept, but this ...
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And the word was made art: John Latham
At an 80th birthday celebration of the work of British artist John Latham, Paul Moorhouse looks into his central books motif.
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