scholarly journals “The Art Game”: Television, Monitor, and British Art at the turn of the 1960s

Author(s):  
Michael Clegg
2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (41) ◽  
pp. 350-408
Author(s):  
Michael Asbury

The British art critic Guy Brett has become a standard reference in Brazil through his writing on and friendship with artists such as Sergio Camargo, Lygia Clark, Hélio Oiticica, Mira Schendel during the 1960s and later with Cildo Meireles, Antonio Manuel, Lygia Pape, Jac Leirner, Waltercio Caldas and so many others. While these artists have come, to a large extent, to define how contemporary art is understood nationally, Guy’s contribution helped weave their creative outputs within a larger art historical narrative, helping inscribe them, even if still only partially, within the hegemonic and institutional canons. Yet, it would be limiting to consider Guy’s relevance through this single, albeit important, perspective. This article, not so much an essay but a series of annotated quotes, seeks to shed light on Guy’s own intellectual trajectory, focusing on the particular way he came to articulate, through his writing and curation, the art that he was interested in. What actually interested him ranged from the singular subjective experience with the art object to its wider relation with the world. When referring to that which bridged such diverse approaches to art, Guy often invoked the idea of cosmic energies, field forces, sometimes in a literal sense such as in the case of electromagnetic force in the work of the Greek artist Takis, at other times more metaphorically. Such invocations whether referring to ancient cosmologies, millennial knowledges or scientific thought, never attempted to determine or impose his own perspective upon others or imply any sense of superiority of one type of art over another. In Guy’s own understanding, the universal seemed antithetical to the way it is usually prescribed within the history of modernism. Indeed, Guy never had a problem with modernism itself but with the narrow constraints with which it has been considered. His criticism was directed primarily towards how modernism has been historicised and instrumentalised within the institutional structures of art.Keywords: Guy Brett; Kinetic Art; Signals Gallery; Art Criticism; Decolonising. AbstractO crítico de arte britânico Guy Brett se tornou referência única no Brasil por meio de sua escrita e amizade com artistas como Sergio Camargo, Lygia Clark, Hélio Oiticica, Mira Schendel durante a década de 1960, e mais tarde com Cildo Meireles, Antonio Manuel, Lygia Pape, Jac Leirner, Waltercio Caldas, assim como tantos outros. Embora esses artistas tenham, em grande parte, definido o modo como a arte contemporânea é entendida em âmbito nacional, a contribuição de Guy ajudou a tecer suas produções dentro de uma narrativa histórica da arte mais ampla, colaborando para os inscrever, ainda que parcialmente, nos cânones hegemônicos e institucionais. Seria, no entanto, limitado considerar a relevância de Guy mediante essa única, embora importante, perspectiva. Este artigo, não é tanto um ensaio, mas uma série de citações em busca de lançar luz sobre a trajetória intelectual de Guy, focalizando a maneira particular como ele veio a articular, por meio de sua escrita e práticas curatoriais, a produção de arte pela qual estava interessado. O que realmente o interessou variou desde a experiência subjetiva singular com o objeto de arte até sua relação mais ampla com o mundo. Ao se referir ao seu interesse por assuntos tão diversificados no campo da arte, Guy frequentemente invocava a ideia de energias cósmicas, forças de campo, às vezes em um sentido literal, como no caso da força eletromagnética existente na obra do artista grego Takis, outras vezes de forma mais metafórica. Tais invocações, sejam cosmologias arcaicas, conhecimentos milenares ou pensamentos científicos, nunca tentaram determinar ou impor suas próprias perspectivas sobre os outros ou implicaram qualquer senso de superioridade de um tipo de arte sobre outro. Na própria compreensão de Guy, o universal parecia antitético à maneira como é normalmente prescrito dentro da história do modernismo. Na verdade, Guy nunca teve problema com o modernismo, mas com a forma limitada pela qual tem sido considerado. Sua crítica era dirigida principalmente ao modo como o modernismo tem sido historicizado e instrumentalizado dentro das estruturas institucionais da arte.Palavras-chave: Guy Brett; arte cinética; Signals Gallery; Magiciens de la Terre; decolonial.


2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (01) ◽  
pp. 102-129
Author(s):  
ALBERTO MARTÍN ÁLVAREZ ◽  
EUDALD CORTINA ORERO

AbstractUsing interviews with former militants and previously unpublished documents, this article traces the genesis and internal dynamics of the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (People's Revolutionary Army, ERP) in El Salvador during the early years of its existence (1970–6). This period was marked by the inability of the ERP to maintain internal coherence or any consensus on revolutionary strategy, which led to a series of splits and internal fights over control of the organisation. The evidence marshalled in this case study sheds new light on the origins of the armed Salvadorean Left and thus contributes to a wider understanding of the processes of formation and internal dynamics of armed left-wing groups that emerged from the 1960s onwards in Latin America.


Author(s):  
Richard B. Mott ◽  
John J. Friel ◽  
Charles G. Waldman

X-rays are emitted from a relatively large volume in bulk samples, limiting the smallest features which are visible in X-ray maps. Beam spreading also hampers attempts to make geometric measurements of features based on their boundaries in X-ray maps. This has prompted recent interest in using low voltages, and consequently mapping L or M lines, in order to minimize the blurring of the maps.An alternative strategy draws on the extensive work in image restoration (deblurring) developed in space science and astronomy since the 1960s. A recent example is the restoration of images from the Hubble Space Telescope prior to its new optics. Extensive literature exists on the theory of image restoration. The simplest case and its correspondence with X-ray mapping parameters is shown in Figures 1 and 2.Using pixels much smaller than the X-ray volume, a small object of differing composition from the matrix generates a broad, low response. This shape corresponds to the point spread function (PSF). The observed X-ray map can be modeled as an “ideal” map, with an X-ray volume of zero, convolved with the PSF. Figure 2a shows the 1-dimensional case of a line profile across a thin layer. Figure 2b shows an idealized noise-free profile which is then convolved with the PSF to give the blurred profile of Figure 2c.


2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosa Jaitin

This article covers several stages of the work of Pichon-Rivière. In the 1950s he introduced the hypothesis of "the link as a four way relationship" (of reciprocal love and hate) between the baby and the mother. Clinical work with psychosis and psychosomatic disorders prompted him to examine how mental illness arises; its areas of expression, the degree of symbolisation, and the different fields of clinical observation. From the 1960s onwards, his experience with groups and families led him to explore a second path leading to "the voices of the link"—the voice of the internal family sub-group, and the place of the social and cultural voice where the link develops. This brought him to the definition of the link as a "bi-corporal and tri-personal structure". The author brings together the different levels of the analysis of the link, using as a clinical example the process of a psychoanalytic couple therapy with second generation descendants of a genocide within the limits of the transferential and countertransferential field. Body language (the core of the transgenerational link) and the couple's absences and presence during sessions create a rhythm that gives rise to an illusion, ultimately transforming the intersubjective link between the partners in the couple and with the analyst.


Author(s):  
Zinaida V. Pushina ◽  
Galina V. Stepanova ◽  
Ekaterina L. Grundan

Zoya Ilyinichna Glezer is the largest Russian micropaleontologist, a specialist in siliceous microfossils — Cenozoic diatoms and silicoflagellates. Since the 1960s, she systematically studied Paleogene siliceous microfossils from various regions of the country and therefore was an indispensable participant in the development of unified stratigraphic schemes for Paleogene siliceous plankton of various regions of the USSR. She made a great contribution to the creation of the newest Paleogene schemes in the south of European Russia and Western Siberia, to the correlations of the Paleogene deposits of the Kara Sea.


2000 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-268
Author(s):  
R. J. CLEEVELY

A note dealing with the history of the Hawkins Papers, including the material relating to John Hawkins (1761–1841) presented to the West Sussex Record Office in the 1960s, recently transferred to the Cornwall County Record Office, Truro, in order to be consolidated with the major part of the Hawkins archive held there. Reference lists to the correspondence of Sibthorp-Hawkins, Hawkins-Sibthorp, and Hawkins to his mother mentioned in The Flora Graeca story (Lack, 1999) are provided.


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