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Perspectives on practice – Editorial

By: Susan Jones

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’ – that is the material that predates our a-n Magazine resource on www.a-n.co.uk. A visit to Chicago in March 2005 put us in contact with Tom Burtonwood. In conversation, we discovered how closely he’d followed a-n’s work since graduation and thus how much he’s in tune with our philosophy and intentions. Our invitation to him to select some key texts from our publishingin the 90s – from a-n Magazine and Artists’ stories – followed. We were delighted when he accepted. His introduction provides a valuable commentary on the context for artists and their work – the public interfaces, strands of engagement and reasons for practice – as well as on changing definitions of artist-led and practice-driven approaches. We extend our thanks to him for his energies that have resulted in Perspectives on practice, the fifth a-n Collections, a series that’s set to continue in...

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