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List of figures referred to below: E Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian, AH281 (1958)Oil on hardboard 88.9 x 120.7 cm. Bradford Museums and Galleries. Available at: https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-martyrdom-of-saint-sebastian-23516 (Accessed 27/04/19) F Assembly of Figures, AKA First Assembly of Figures, AH129 (1952)Oil on board 142.2 x 116.8 cm. Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich.  Available at: http://www.thekeithvaughansociety.com/2016/11/24/first-assembly-figures-1952/ (Accessed … More Thinking about a piece of work on Keith Vaughan

This is a beginning book list before I finish writing the 2000 word assignment. It will be the bones of the bibliography for the work – minus annotations. I started by annotating works that were easy to annotate but have read all of them once they were included. Some titles are self-explanatory (*). The real … More Final version of some annotated references for a project on May 1968 in Paris.

The issues raised by the case studies in Block 4 of A844 are said to exemplify “categories of the visual and material that have demystified the role of the artist, and challenged the notion of what is an art object and who can produce art.” Nowhere was the role of the creative individual artist more … More A framework for a question on the artefacts of May 1968.

On Chapter 3 of: Bishop, C. (Ed.) (2012) Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship London & New York, Verso (references to Kindle ed. – uses Loc. Numbers not pages). Bishop rarely engages with the ‘art’ of ’68 itself (outside of a rather nice Lebel quotation), except for the Atelier Populaire’s 1968 Poster … More Art and Arting Around: Bishop’s 1968 in France

Bishop, C. (Ed.) (2012) Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship London & New York, Verso (references to Kindle ed. – uses Loc. Numbers not pages). Introduction & Ch. 1. ARGUMENT Bishop defines ‘participatory art’ to include all artistic phenomena related to an ‘expanded field of post-studio practices’, including those named socially engaged … More Working notes On Bishop (2012) ‘Artificial Hells’

How censorship happens! The reprinted blogs below were attempts to understand why I am so often frustrated by a course in Art-History at the OU that I am doing as Staff Development. They resulted in the OU taking away my right to create blogs on their site or taking part in online fora. Should an … More How censorship happens! Anecdotal!

Johnson, R. (1972) ‘The French Communist Party versus the Students: Revolutionary Politics in May-June 1968’ New Haven & London, Yale University Press. There is real joy in reading an old but a good book on left politics, not least because this book poses its questions in terms of the future choices and prospects for the … More May ’68 Notes on Johnson, R. (1972) ‘The French Communist Party versus the Students’ Yale University Press.

BLOG ON: Ross, Kristin (2002) May ’68 and its Afterlives Chicago & London, University of Chicago Press. Available as ebook at: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/open/detail.action?docID=496636 (Accessed 04/04/19).               This book helps me to reinterpret events in my own memory – for me May 68 in France was the prequel of changes in my experience of the institutions that … More Ross, Kristin (2002) ‘May ’68 and its Afterlives’ University of Chicago Press.

This is a beginning book list. I’ve annotated works that were easy to annotate but have read these so far. The real nitty-gritty will lie in absorbing, processing and reflecting the work of Claire Bishop (2012) and the many minor critiques of her approach in other work in this list but most notably in McKee … More Beginning to create annotated references for a project on May 1968 in Paris.

Some ideas about May 1968 from Abidor, M. (2018) ‘May Made Me: An Oral History of the 1968 Uprising in France’ London, Pluto Press. This is a rich resource in that it brings together accounts from Paris veterans (already established political workers, new students, anarchists and voices from outside Paris. It also mixes accounts from … More Some ideas about May 1968 from Abidor, M. (2018)

Reading Guy Debord (1967) The Society of the Spectacle (trans Knabb, K.). 2nd ed. (2012) Eastbourne, Soul Bay Press Ltd., Sussex. Debord addresses these issues, although never ‘head-on’. He details signs of negation of the SotS (94) thus: (thesis 115, p.94): New signs of negation are proliferating in the most economically advanced countries. Although these … More Thinking about ‘art’ in May 1968 and the issue of an inclusive art-history (1):