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Live in Your Head: Concept and Experiment in Britain, 1965-75.


WHITECHAPEL ART GALLERY

Tired of YBA YBA Banff, Alberta, Canada (Airport Code)
YBA Young British Artist (generation of British artists born between mid-1960s and 1970s)
YBA You'll Be Alright
YBA Youth Buddhist Association (Hawaii) 
? The latest survey to reexamine re·ex·am·ine also re-ex·am·ine  
tr.v. re·ex·am·ined, re·ex·am·in·ing, re·ex·am·ines
1. To examine again or anew; review.

2. Law To question (a witness) again after cross-examination.
 the art of the '60s and '70s, "Live In Your Head" revisits the context of British Conceptualism conceptualism, in philosophy, position taken on the problem of universals, initially by Peter Abelard in the 12th cent. Like nominalism it denied that universals exist independently of the mind, but it held that universals have an existence in the mind as concept. , in particular the more ephemeral and far-out practices that flourished during that fabled epoque. In this show, curated by Clive Phillpot and Whitechapel's Andrea Tarsia, expect to see works by Richard Long Richard Long may be:
  • Sir Richard Long (c.1494-1546) Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Henry VIII
  • Richard Long (1668-1730) British Member of Parliament for Chippenham, Wiltshire
  • Richard Long (c1691-1760) British Member of Parliament for Chippenham, Wiltshire
 and Art & Language alongside more extreme projects: remnants of John Latham's notorious supper at which guests chewed up and spit out pages of Greenberg's Art and Culture; Susan Hiller's early opus incinerated and poured into a test tube; and Gilbert and George's magazine self-portraits bearing the legend "George the Cunt/Gilbert the Shit." Feb. 4-Apr. 2.
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Author:Meyer, James
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Date:Jan 1, 2000
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