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Perspectives on practice
As part of marking our 25-year anniversary, Chicago-based Tom Burtonwood selects key texts from our publishing in the 1990s illustrating a-n's impact "as a vehicle for foregrounding developments in artists' practice and strategies". Includes articles by Nina Edge, Sunil Gupta, Rosie Millard, Grayson Perry and Jenny Saville.
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a-n Collections April 2006
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All that glitters is Goldsmiths
David Briers examines The British Art Show 4. Subscribers read on…
Publication in html, (First published: a-n Magazine February 1996)
Approaching public practice
Artist’s motivations when working in the public realm. Subscribers read on…
Publication in html, (First published: a-n Magazine August 1998)
Being able to describe
Nina Edge on her portfolio career. Subscribers read on…
Publication in html, (First published: Artists’ Stories, edited by Anna Douglas and Nicholas Wegner, a-n Publications, 1996)
Enriched mix
Artist David Macintosh takes a personal look at collaborative working. Subscribers read on…
Publication in html, (First published: a-n Magazine March 2000)
Fear and loathing
Grayson Perry on exhibiting in ‘The Raw and the Cooked’. Subscribers read on…
Publication in html, (First published: a-n Magazine July 1994)
Morality bites
Godfrey Worsdale on artists who explore moral issues. Subscribers read on…
Publication in html, (First published: a-n Magazine February 1997)
O brave new world
Sunil Gupta looks back to the revolution of the mid 1990s, when the artistic imagination was first allowed to direct cultural policy. Subscribers read on…
Publication in html, (First published: a-n Magazine February 1995)
Out of Control
Mike Stubbs examines some issues facing artists. Subscribers read on…
Publication in html, (First published: a-n Magazine September 2000)
Perspectives on practice – Editorial
Because we’ve been commenting and reporting on artists’ practice and the wider environment for it since 1980, it seemed important in our 25th anniversary year to devote one of the a-n Collections to the ‘back archive’… Subscribers read on…
Publication in html, a-n Collections April 2006
Perspectives on practice – Introduction
Perspectives on practice is a survey of writings spanning six years from a range of UK-based artists and writers. The selected articles illustrate the impact a-n has had as a vehicle for foregrounding developments in artists’ practice and… Subscribers read on…
Publication in html, a-n Collections April 2006
Saville’s road
Chales Saatchi saw one of Jenny Saville’s paintings and commissioned a series, but she believes it’ss hard work and dedication that sustain her. Subscribers read on…
Publication in html, (First published: Artists’ Stories, edited by Anna Douglas and Nicholas Wegner, a-n Publications, 1996)
Simultaneous equations
Simon Herbert on approaches to distributing art. Subscribers read on…
Publication in html, (First published: a-n Magazine September 1996)
Tales of the city
David Butler discusses artists and urban regeneration. Subscribers read on…
Publication in html, (First published: a-n Magazine September 1996)
The art of making things
Francis McKee describes a cross-pollination between art, craft, design and architecture. Subscribers read on…
Publication in html, (First published: a-n Magazine September 1996)
The art of publishing
Simon Grennan on new sites for art. Subscribers read on…
Publication in html, (First published: a-n Magazine November 1994)
Women in focus
Rosie Millard looks as two projects about women’s art. Subscribers read on…
Publication in html, (First published: a-n Magazine November 1994)
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