Charles Townsend Harrison

Charles Harrison Townsend ( born February 11, 1942 in Chesham, Buckinghamshire, UK; † August 6, 2009 in Banbury, Oxfordshire ) was a British conceptual artist, author, publisher and member of the artist group Art & Language.

Life and work

Charles Harrison studied at Cambridge University and at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London from 1961 until 1967. He taught as Professor of History and Theory of Art at the Open University.

Charles Harrison was in 1971 a member of the artist group Art & Language, and has been the editor of Art-Language.

Charles Harrison was a member of Art & Language in 1972 participants of the Documenta 5 in Kassel with the project index 0001 in the Department Idea Idea / light, along with the Art & Language artists Terry Atkinson, David Bainbridge, Ian Burn, Michael Baldwin, Harold Hurrell, Mel Ramsden and the U.S. specialists for art Joseph Kosuth language. With Art & Language, he was represented at the Documenta 6 (1977 ) and the Documenta 7 in 1982.

Since 1977, Art & Language is still being continued by Baldwin and Ramsden as a project. There was a now extensive oeuvre of objects and images. Many texts are written by Charles Harrison.

Literature and sources

  • Exhibition catalog: documentation fifth survey of reality - imagery today. Catalog (as folders ) Volume 1: (Material), Volume 2: ( list of exhibits ), Kassel 1972
  • Documenta Archiv (ed. ); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive 1972 to documenta 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: drawings, utopian design, books; Kassel 1977, ISBN 3-920453-00- X
  • Catalog: documenta 7 in Kassel. Volume 1: ( Visual biographies of artists ); Volume 2: ( Current works of the artist); Kassel 1982, ISBN 3-920453-02-6
  • ( documenta 10 catalog): Politics - Poetics - the book to documenta X Kassel / Ostfildern 1997, ISBN 3-89322-909-4 ( German ), ISBN 3-89322-911-6 (English)
  • Daniel Marzona: Conceptual Art Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-8228-2959-5
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