Charles Harrison (artist)
Charles Townsend Harrison (born February 11, 1942 in Chesham , Buckinghamshire , Great Britain ; † August 6, 2009 in Banbury , Oxfordshire ) was a British conceptual artist , author , editor and member of the Art & Language group of artists .
life and work
Charles Harrison studied at Cambridge University and the Courtauld Institute of Art in London from 1961 to 1967. He taught as Professor of History and Theory of Art at the Open University .
Charles Harrison joined the Art & Language group of artists in 1971 and has been the editor of Art-Language .
As a member of Art & Language, Charles Harrison participated in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 with the project Index 0001 in the Idea + Idea / Light department , together with the Art & Language artists Terry Atkinson , David Bainbridge , Ian Burn , Michael Baldwin , Harold Hurrell , Mel Ramsden and the American specialist in art-language Joseph Kosuth . With Art & Language he was also represented at Documenta 6 (1977) and Documenta 7 in 1982.
Art & Language has been continued as a project by Baldwin and Ramsden since 1977. An extensive oeuvre of objects and images was created. Many texts are written by Charles Harrison.
Literature and Sources
- Exhibition catalog: documenta 5. Survey of Reality - Imagery Today. Catalog (as a file folder) Volume 1: (Material), Volume 2: (List of exhibits), Kassel 1972
- documenta archive (ed.); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive on documenta 1972. Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121-X
- Catalog for documenta 6: Volume 1: Painting, sculpture / environment, performance; Volume 2: photography, film, video; Volume 3: Hand drawings, utopian design, books; Kassel 1977, ISBN 3-920453-00-X
- Catalog: documenta 7 Kassel . Volume 1: (Visual Biographies of the Artists); Volume 2: (Current works by the artists); Kassel 1982, ISBN 3-920453-02-6
- (documenta 10 catalog): Politics - Poetics - the book on documenta X. Kassel / Ostfildern 1997, ISBN 3-89322-909-4 (German), ISBN 3-89322-911-6 (English)
- Daniel Marzona: Conceptual Art. Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-8228-2959-5
Web links
- Art & Language in the Mulier Gallery
- Art & Language at the Lisson Gallery
- Art & Language: Blurting in A & L online
- Thomas Dreher: Intermedia Art: Conceptual Art
- Artists group page in Artfacts.Net Examples of their work
- Jo Melvin: Charles Harrison: Art historian and critic celebrated for his work on the journals 'Art-Language' and 'Studio International'. September 7, 2009
- Literature by and about Charles Harrison in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Harrison, Charles |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Harrison, Charles Townsend (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British conceptual artist, editor and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 11, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chesham , Buckinghamshire , UK |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 6, 2009 |
| Place of death | Banbury , Oxfordshire |