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About APG – Text from Tate website www.tate.org

Published September 12th, 2012

…” The idea of Artist Placement stemmed from a group of UK artists, and was guided by John Latham and initiated by Barbara Steveni, who were experimenting with radical new forms of art. Directed by Steveni, the APG pioneered the concept of art in the social context. From the outset their notion of ‘placement’ acknowledged Read more

John Latham

Published September 12th, 2012

From his 1954 demonstration leading to the foundation of the Institute for the Study of Mental Images (ISMI), Hampshire, when his “quantum of mark” approach to Form as Art was discovered, until his death in 2006, one of John Latham’s major preoccupations was to map the relation between this representation of history and that of Read more