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What The Butler Saw: Selected Writings by Stuart Morgan

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Contains essays and interviews by late leading art critic Stuart Morgan with a foreward by Thomas McEvilley

This item is part of the ‘Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art’ Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)

Editor Ian Hunt
Publisher Durian
ISBN 0952741407
Reference P2477
Date 1996
Type Publication

Keywords

Alice Aycock America Andy Warhol Ansuya Blom Anthony Howell Bill Viola Boyd Webb Bruce McLean Christian Boltanski Colin McCahon conceptual art criticism Damien Hirst Denis Masi Dennis Oppenheim Dick Jewell Edward Allington Eric Bainbridge essay Europe Fiona Rae Genesis P-Orridge Gilbert & George Glen Baxter Grenville Davey installation interviews Jeff Koons Joseph Beuys Louise Bourgeois Madonna Marc Camille Chaimowicz Miroslaw Balka Niek Kemps Paul Thek Pepe Espaliu performance art Peter Greenaway Piotr Nathan Rachel Whiteread Rebecca Horn Richard Prince Richard Wentworth Robert Mapplethorpe Robert Smithson Rudolf Schwarzkogler Simon Lewty Simon Linke Stephen Pippin Steven Campbell Stuart Brisley Stuart Morgan text theory Therese Oulton Thomas Grünfeld visual art William Wegman writing

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