{"id":61,"date":"2012-09-12T19:36:42","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T19:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/tate-project\/?p=61"},"modified":"2012-09-12T20:06:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T20:06:52","slug":"john-latham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/tate-project\/2012\/09\/12\/john-latham\/","title":{"rendered":"John Latham"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_68\" style=\"width: 289px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/tate-project\/files\/2012\/09\/john-latham.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[61]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68\" src=\"http:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/tate-project\/files\/2012\/09\/john-latham.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/tate-project\/files\/2012\/09\/john-latham.jpg 279w, https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/tate-project\/files\/2012\/09\/john-latham-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 279px) 100vw, 279px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-68\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Latham<\/p><\/div>\n<p>From his 1954 demonstration leading to the foundation of the Institute for the Study of Mental Images (ISMI), Hampshire, when his &#8220;quantum of mark&#8221; approach to Form as Art was discovered, until his death in 2006, one of John Latham&#8217;s major preoccupations was to map the relation between this representation of history and that of scientists approaching the subject from mathematical and common sense perception. Latham&#8217;s work was &#8220;art&#8221; with the Universe as subject matter; the difference found being one of great simplicity. The conventional world picture is in terms of &#8220;objects&#8221;. Art uses a dimensionality of &#8220;event&#8221; that is incompatible with &#8220;object&#8221; language. Hence his construct <a title=\"Frieze magazine article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.frieze.com\/issue\/article\/context_is_half_the_work\/\">Event Structure.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Latham&#8217;s most famous works are his book-reliefs which he made from the 1950s onwards, both wall-based and free-standing. He was also the first person in the UK to use spray-paint in his work, both in the paintings of the 50s and to make the seminal &#8216;One Second Drawing&#8217; works of the 70s. There were retrospective exhibitions of his work at Tate Britain in 2005 and at the John Hansard Gallery and P.S.1, New York in 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From his 1954 demonstration leading to the foundation of the Institute for the Study of Mental Images (ISMI), Hampshire, when his &#8220;quantum of mark&#8221; approach to Form as Art was discovered, until his death in 2006, one of John Latham&#8217;s major preoccupations was to map the relation between this representation of history and that of <a href=\"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/tate-project\/2012\/09\/12\/john-latham\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-texts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/tate-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/tate-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/tate-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/tate-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/tate-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/tate-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/tate-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/tate-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/tate-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillrandall.co.uk\/tate-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}