Harold Hurrell

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Harold Hurrell (* 1940 in Barnsley , Yorkshire , Great Britain ; lives in Hull , England ) is a British conceptual artist and former member of the Art & Language group .

Life

Harold Hurrell studied at Sheffield College of Art from 1961 to 1964 and at the Institute of Education in London from 1964 to 1965.

He taught at Hull College of Art from 1967 and at the "Function Seminar" at St. Martin's School of Art in 1967 in London.

Harold Hurrell became a member of the Art & Language artist group in the early 1970s and remained so until the mid-1970s.

As a member of Art & Language, Harold Hurrell took part 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 , Charles Harrison , Mel Ramsden and the American specialist in art-language Joseph Kosuth . He was also represented at Documenta 6 in 1977 with Art & Language .

literature

  • 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
  • Daniel Marzona: Conceptual Art ; Cologne 2005. ISBN 3-8228-2959-5

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personal data
SURNAME Hurrell, Harold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British concept artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Barnsley , Yorkshire , United Kingdom