{"product_id":"londons-arts-labs-and-the-60s-avant-garde-paperback-softback-9780861967483","title":"London's Arts Labs and the 60s Avant-Garde (Paperback \/ softback) 9780861967483","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLondon's Arts Labs and the 60s Avant-Garde\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid Curtis (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780861967483\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 24 November 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e212 pages, 60 color illus., 40 b\u0026amp;w illus. - 60 Illustrations, color - 40 Illustrations, black and white\u003cbr\u003e20.3 x 19.8 x 1.4 cm, 0.567 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eLavishly illustrated with photos, posters and drawings, although sometimes reproduced a little too small to discern details. Some fifty years on, the historical relevance of these groundbreaking initiatives and developments continues to resonate in both contemporary art and our digitally driven world.\u003c\/p\u003e (Leonardo Reviews)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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 \u003ci\u003eChelsea Girls\u003c\/i\u003e, challenging exhibitions (John and Yoko \/ John Latham \/ Takis \/ Roelof Louw), poetry and music (first UK performance of Erik Satie's 24-hour \u003ci\u003eVexations\u003c\/i\u003e) and fringe theatre (People Show \/ Freehold \/ Jane Arden's \u003ci\u003eVagina Rex and the Gas Oven\u003c\/i\u003e \/ 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 \u003ci\u003eCrashed Cars\u003c\/i\u003e exhibition and John \u0026amp; Dianne Lifton's pioneering computer-aided dance\/mime performances.\u003cbr\u003eThe 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 \u0026amp; Contemporary British Art and Archives, Tate Gallery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword - 'IT'S NOT EASY'; 'The best Arts Laboratories are play pens.' Andrew Wilson Introduction Part one – Drury Lane Arts Lab Setting-up The Building The Programme Mix Theatre Poetry \u0026amp; Talks Music The Gallery The Soft Cinema Challenges Part two - The New Arts Lab at Robert St. (IRAT) Setting-Up The Building The Cybernetic Theatre The Gallery Music \/ Poetry \/ Talks The Print Workshop Video – TVX Cinema and Film Workshop Closure Postscript Appendices Drury Lane and Robert Street Workers' After-lives Arts Labs \u0026amp; Related Phenomena \/ Addresses \u0026amp; News by Regions' (\u003ci\u003eIT \/ BIT\u003c\/i\u003e Oct '69) Rob La Frenais \u0026amp; James Strangeways – On the Southampton Arts Lab David Jeffrey – The Penis in Italy – an Arts Lab Adventure, 1968 Jan Quackenbush – My play Complexions at the Drury Lane Arts LabMo Throp \u0026amp; John King – Footnotes to \u003ci\u003eSketches From a Hunter's Album\u003c\/i\u003e Index Biography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"John Libbey Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52670768480536,"sku":"9780861967483","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/londons-arts-labs-and-the-60s-avant-garde-paperback-softback-9780861967483","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}