ART-LANGUAGE. 1970 – 1978. A CONTINUOUS RUN OF 10 NUMBERS

Art + Language
ART-LANGUAGE Vol. 1 Nr 1
Chipping Norton: Art & Language, February 1970
21.5 x 13.5cm, 32pp. Original card covers. First edition of this inaugural number of the important conceptual art journal with articles by Sol LeWitt, Dan Graham, Lawrence Weiner, David Bainbridge and Michael Baldwin. LeWitt’s Sentences on conceptual art. Graham’s Poem-Schema and Weiner’s Statements had all been previously published elsewhere but being in a single journal allowed their views to be compared – LeWitt’s 10th sentence is “Ideas alone can be works of art: they are in a chian of development that may eventually find other form. All ideas may not be made physical.” – compare that with Weiner’s more famous and more readily quoted dictum regarding the requirement that “1. an artist may construct a work 2. a work may be fabricated 3. a work need not be built. A reasonable assumption is that each being equal and consistant with the intent of an artist the decision as to condition rests within the needs of the receiver upon the occasion of receivership.” A VG + to near fine copy.

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ART-LANGUAGE Vol. 1 Nr 2
Chipping Norton: Art & Language, February 1970
21.5 x 13.5cm, 88pp. Original card covers. First edition of this single number from the conceptual art journal with articles by Joseph Kosuth, David Bainbridge, Frederic Barthelme, Stephen McKenna, Michael Baldwin, Ian Burn, Terry Atkinson, Harold Hurrell, Michael Thompson and Mel Ramsden. A VG + to near fine copy.

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ART-LANGUAGE Vol. 1 Nr 3
Chipping Norton: Art & Language, June 1970
21.5 x 13.5cm, 36pp. Original card covers. First edition of this single number from the conceptual art journal with articles by Ramsden, Bihari, Graham Howard, Ian Burn and Roger Cutford. A VG + to near fine copy.

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ART-LANGUAGE Vol. 1 Nr 4
Chipping Norton: Art & Language, November 1971
21.5 x 13.5cm, 72pp. Original card covers. First edition of this single number from the conceptual art journal with articles by Terry Atkinson, Stuart Knight, Michael Baldwin and Graham Howard. A VG + to near fine copy.

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ART-LANGUAGE Vol. 2 Nr 1
Chipping Norton: Art & Language, February 1972
21.5 x 13.5cm, 58pp. Original card covers. A single number from the
conceptual art journal with articles by Michael Baldwin, Ian Burn, Terry
Atkinson, David Rushton, Kevin Lole, Philip Pilkington and Graham Howard. A
VG + to near fine copy.

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ART-LANGUAGE Vol. 2 Nr 2
Chipping Norton: Art & Language, November 1971
21.5 x 13.5cm, 36pp. Original card covers. First edition of this single number from the conceptual art journal with articles by Ian Burn, Mel Ramadan, Terry Atkinson, Michael Baldwin, Harold Hurrell, David Bainbridge and Victor Burgin. A VG + to near fine copy.

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ART-LANGUAGE Vol. 2 Nr 3 (Mis-numbered by editors as Vol 2 Nr 2)

Lemington Spa: Art & Language, September 1973

21.5 x 13.5cm, 78pp. Original card covers. A single number from the conceptual art journal with articles by Michael Baldwin, Ian Burn, David Rushton, Philip Pilkington, Michael Corris, Mel Ramsden, David Bainbridge, John F. Hemmings and Graham Howard. A VG + to near fine copy. The designers mis-numbered this particular issue and the cover has the correct number tipped on as issued.

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HANDBOOK(S) TO GOING ON. ART-LANGUAGE Vol. 2 Nr 4
Chipping Norton: Art & Language, June 1974
30 x 21cm, 130pp. Original card covers. First edition of this single number from the conceptual art journal with for the first time anonymous articles. A VG + to near fine copy. Very scarce.

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(Burn, Ian, Mel Ramsden and Terry Smith)
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DRAFT FOR AN ANTI-TEXTBOOK ART-LANGUAGE  Volume 3 Number 1
Leamington Spa: Art-Language Press, September 1974:
30 x 21cm, 110pp plus card wrappers. Single number of this conceptual art journal with contributions solely by Burn, Ramsden and Smith. Very minot marks to white wrappers else VG+.

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ART-LANGUAGE  Volume 3 Number 2
Leamington Spa: Art-Language Press, May 1975:
30 x 21cm, 96pp plus card wrappers. Single number of this conceptual art journal with contributions solely by Burn, Ramsden and Smith. Very minor marks to white wrappers else VG+.

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