Guy Brett
Bibliography
Books
Delacroix, Knowledge Publications, Purnell, London 1965
Sergio Camargo, Signals London, 1966
Kinetic Art, the Language of Movement, Studio Vista/Reinholt, London andNew York, 1968
Big Red Diary, "The Art of Resistance" (verbal/visual compilation), Pluto Press, London, 1982
Big Red Diary, "Images of Liberation" (verbal/visual compilation), Pluto Press, London, 1983
Through Our Own Eyes: Popular Art & Modern History, GMP/Heretic London, New Society Publishers, Baltimore 1986.
Transcontinental: 9 Latin American Artists, Verso, London, 1990.
David Medalla: Exploding Galaxies, Kala Press, London, 1995.
Li Yuan-chia: Tell me what is not yet said, inIVA, London, 2001.
Essays in books
Introduction, Rasheed Araeen: Making Myself Visible , Kala Press, London, 1984
"A Radical Leap", in Art in Latin America (ed. Dawn Ades), Yale University Press, London, 1989.
"Unofficial Versions", in The Myth of Primitivism (ed. Susan Hiller), Routledge, London, 1991.
"Lygia Clark and Helio Oiticica", in Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1993.
"La culture planétaire: l'art moderne non-occidental" and "La culture planétaire: hégémonie et résistance", in Le Grand Atlas de L'Art, Encyclopaedia Universalis, Paris, 1993.
"On walking up and down", in Nick Stewart, Neither Time Nor Material: Performance, Installation, Drawing, Video 1982-1995, Orchard Gallery, Derry, 1995.
"Rose Finn-Kelcey", "Tina Keane", in A Directory of Film and Video Artists (ed. David Curtis), Arts Council of England, 1996.
"Actively the Void" ("Ativamente o vazio"), in Mira Schendel: no vazio do mundo, Editora Marca d_Agua, São Paulo, 1996.
"Itinerary", in Mona Hatoum, Phaidon Press, London, 1997.
"Life Strategies: overview and selection - Buenos Aires-London-Rio de Janeiro-Santiago de Chile 1960-1980", in Out of Actions: between Performance and the Object, Thames & Hudson, London and New York, 1998.
"The Light Touch", in Gabriel Orozco, Empty Club, Artangel Afterlives, London, 1998.
"A Tragic Excitement", in Aubrey Williams, inIVA / Whitechapel Gallery, London 1998.
"Mundo-Jardin", in La Flora Chilena en la Mirada de Marianne North (ed. Antonia Echenique and MarÃaVictoria Legassa). Penhuén, Santaigo de Chile, 1999.
"The Logic of the Web", in Lygia Pape:Gavia de Tocaia, Cosac & Naify / Fundaçao de Serralves, São Paulo and Porto, 2000.
"tiny black dot" (Li Yuan-chia), in Lost Horizons (ed. Melanie Jackson), The Camberwell Press, London, 2000.
"Being Penalva_s Public", in João Penalva, Instituto de Arte Contemporânea/Electa, Lisbon, 2001.
"Gysin Known and Unknown: the Calligraphic Paintings", in Brion Gysin (various authors), Thames & Hudson, forthcoming.
Catalogue texts
Art & Movement, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Kelvingrove Gallery, Glasgow, 1965
Peter Joseph, paintings, Greenwich Theatre Gallery, London, 1966
In Motion (Pol Bury, Lygia Clark, Gianni Colombo, Gerhard von Graevenitz, Liliane Lijn, David Medalla, Jesus-Rafael Soto, Takis, Jean Tinguely), Arts Council of Great Britain, 1966
Takis: magnetic sculpture and the white signals, Indica Gallery, London 1966
Soto, Marlborough Gerson Gallery, New York, 1969
Hélio Oiticica: the Whitechapel experiment, Whitechapel Gallery, London 1969
dom sylvester houédard: visual poetries, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1971
"A slow-motion quality", Henri Laurens, Hayward Gallery, London, 1971
Takis retrospective, CNAC Paris 1972
Darcy Lange: video studies in schools, Museum of Modern Art Oxford, 1977
Peasant Paintings from Hu County, Shensi Province, China, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1977
We Want People to Know the Truth: Patchwork Pictures from Chile, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, 1977
Lives, Hayward Gallery, London, 1979
"Lu Xun's Essays", in Lu Xun Zeitgenosse, Staatsbibliothek, Berlin, 1980
Georgina Hunt paintings, Camden Arts Centre, London 1982
Balraj Khanna paintings, Bede Gallery, Jarrow, 1983
"Unquiet Studios", Critics Space 2 (Philippa Beale, Hannah Collins, Sue Dale, Claire Dove, John Dugger, Kay Fido, Charlie Pig, Darryl Viner), Air Gallery, London, 1984
"Singular and Plural", Susan Hiller 1973-83: The Muse My Sister, The Orchard Gallery, Derry, 1984.
Een Soort Schoonheid/ A kind of Beauty, Perfo 3 Performance Festival, Lantaren Venster, Rotterdam, 1985
Aubrey Williams, Commonwealth Institute, London, 1985
Ghisha Koenig, Serpentine Gallery, London, 1986
Genarro Telaro, Peoples Gallery, London, 1986
"Photography - Dance - Performance", in Gathering Light, Chisenhale Dance Space/Camerawork, London, 1987
"Villanueva as a Collector", Carlos Raul Villanueva, Museo de Arte Contemporanea, Caracas, 1988
"Lizart", Tunga, Whitechapel Gallery, London. 1989
"Cildo Meireles", Cildo Meireles/Tunga, Kanaal Art Foundation, Kortrijk,
Belgium, 1989
"Statement", After 1789: Ideas and Images of Revolution, Kettles Yard, Cambridge, 1989
"A Bill of Wrongs", Jac Leirner, Bienal of São Paulo, 1989
"Dittborn's Airmail Paintings: The Invention of a Genre", Eugenio Dittborn: Transperiferia, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, 1989
"Internationalism among artists in the 60s and 70s", The Other Story, South Bank Centre, Hayward Gallery, London, 1989.
"Rose Finn-Kelcey's Bureau de Change", Signs of the Times, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 1990
"Brazilian Artists in Britain", Britain and the São Paulo Bienal,
The British Council, 1991.
"Open only in conditions specified/ Abrir sólo en las condiciones indicados", Camino Way: the Airmail Paintings/ las Pinturas Aeropostales of/ de Eugenio Dittborn, Santiago de Chile, 1991.
"Vacating the Premisses", Rose Finn-Kelcey, Chisenhale Gallery, London and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 1992.
"Two Contrary States?", David Griffiths, Battersea Arts Centre, London, 1992.
"The Experimental Exercise of Liberty", Hélio Oiticica, Witte de With, Rotterdam and Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris, 1992.
Andrew Stahl, Angela Flowers Gallery, London, 1992.
Eric Rimmington, Mercury Gallery, London, 1992.
"Notes of a Spectator", Dissected Space (Mona Hatoum), Chapter, Cardiff, 1992.
"A Hatoum Chronology", Mona Hatoum, Arnolfini, Bristol, 1993.
"Nowhere", Maria-Thereza Alves, The Central Space, London, 1993.
"Dust Clouds", The Airmail Paintings of Eugenio Dittborn, Las Pinturas Aeropostales de Eugenio Dittborn, ICA, London and Witte de With, Rotterdam, 1993.
"Propos sur Takis", Takis, Jeu de Paume, Paris, 1993.
Truth, Dare, Double-Dare: Rose Finn-Kelcey, Donald Rodney, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 1994.
Sergio Camargo, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 1994.
"Montage as Mestizaje", Juan Davila - Juanita Laguna, Chisenhale Gallery, London, 1994.
"Equilibrium and Polarity", Victor Grippo, Ikon Gallery Birmingham and Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1995.
"Brazilian Experimentality", Continuum: Brazilian Art 1960s-1990s, University Gallery, University of Essex, 1995.
"Aubrey Williams OECosmos Series_", October Gallery, London, 1995.
"The Amorphous Us", Derek Boshier, The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, 1995.
"Around the Subject", Freedom, Amnesty International Glasgow Groups exhibition. Glasgow, Belfast, Southampton, Dundee, 1965-67
"The Materials of the Artist", Susan Hiller, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, 1996
"The Proposal of Lygia Clark" Inside the Visible, an elliptical traverse of 20th century art: in, of, and from the feminine, MIT Press and ICA, Boston. 1996.
"The Museum of Space-Time" (OEEl Museo de Espacio-Tiempo_), Remota - Eugenio Dittborn, Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, The New Museum, NewYork, 1996.
"Brevity and Toil" (OEBrevedad y Faena_), Rainer Krause: Paisajes Marginales/ Las Listas, Museum de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, 1996.
"The Maybe", Cornelia Parker, Chapter, Cardiff, 1996.
"David Medalla", Life/Live, ARC - Musée d_Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1996.
"Everything Simultaneously Present", Tunga: 1977-1997, Bard College, New York, 1997.
"Lygia Clark: Six Cells", Lygia Clark, Fundació Antoni Tapies, Barcelona, 1997.
"Steel and Air", Darrell Viner: Air Moves, Royal Festival Hall Ballroom Commission, London, 1998.
Text in Carolina Bassi 1991-1997, Paris, 1998.
"Extending the Hand", James Moores, Richard Salmon Gallery, London, 1999.
"The Century of Kinaesthesia", in Force Fields:An Essay on the Kinetic, MACBA Barcelona/Actar and Hayward Gallery London, 2000.
"I don_t want to represent, I want to act", Antonio Manuel, Museu Serralves, Porto, 2000.
"Communicating Vessels" (Carla Guagliardi), Künstlerhaus Bethanian no, 6, Berlin, 2000.
"Hélio Oiticica_s OEWhitechapel Experiment_", The Whitechapel Art Gallery Centenary Review, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2001.
Articles
(Numerous articles in The Times, The Guardian and City Limits are unlisted here)
"A Collector who Learned from Artists", The Times, 1 Jan 1965
"Pure Relations: the Art of J.R. Soto", Art International, Oct 1965
"Takis Dialogues: V", Signals Newsbulletin, Vol 1 No 8, June-July 1965
"Dialogue; J.R. Soto and Guy Brett", Signals Newsbulletin, Vol 1 No 10, Nov-Dec 1965 (reprinted in Soto Exhibition catalogue, Kunsthalle Bern, May-June 1968)
"Pierre Bonnard exhibition", The Times, 6 Jan 1966
"Naum Gabo: Space is Not Outside Us", The Times, 15 March 1966
"The Gadfly of Modern Art" (Marcel Duchamp), The Times, 14 June 1966
"Carpaccio", The Times, 11 Oct 1966
"1+1 = 0: Li Yuan-chia", Studio International, July/August 1967
"Photomontages of John Heartfield", The Times, 16 Sept 1967
"Van Gogh in the Fields", The Times, 15 Oct 1967
"Cool State of the Word", The Times, 30 Dec 1967
"The Invisible Works of Modern Art", The Times, 2 April 1968
"Tuba on Fire", The Times, 15 Feb 1969
"Hélio Oiticica, an interview",Studio International, March 1969
"Ways of Pointing a Camera", The Times, 22 April 1969
"When Attitudes Become Form", The Times, 30 Aug 1969
"Gentle Man of Iron" (Julio Gonzalez), The Times, 10 Nov 1970
"Waste of the World", The Times, 25 March 1971
"500 Years after Durer", The Times, 17 May 1971
"Moholy-Nagy and the Whole Man", The Times, 3 July 1971
"At the Feet of Gaudi". The Times, 17 Aug 1971
"Tantra: New Vistas of Meditation and Self-knowledge", The Times, 23 Oct 1971
"Francis Bacon in Paris", The Times, 27 Oct 1971
"Calderara's World of Stillness", The Times, 2 Nov 1971
"Hogarth's Progress", The Times, 2 Dec 1971
"Blake, Blake, Burning Bright", The Times, 8 Dec 1971
"Eugene Atget, Parisian and Photographer",The Times, 21 Dec 1971
"L'Invention Continue . . .(speciale Grande-Bretagne)",L'Art Vivant, April 1972
"Centenary Exibition of Mondrian", The Times, 22 June 1972
"Takis Sows the Magnetic Fields", The Times, 3 Oct 1972
"Islamic Carpets as Ideograms of Plenty", The Times, 25 Oct 1972
"The Needle's Eye", The Times, 23 Jan 1973
"Videotape as an Art Medium", The Times, 6 March 1973
"Carta de Londres", Artes Visuales, (Mexico) Summer 1974
"Klee at the Edge of Anxiety",The Times, 17 Dec 1974
"China's Spare-Time Artists", Studio International, Jan/Feb 1975
"Spare-time Artworkers", China Now, Feb 1975
"Off-centre", Ceramic Review, July/August 1975
"Lu Hsun and the Woodcut Movement", China Now, Feb 1976
"Terre Fertile: Champ, Agriculture, Décoration", Macula(Paris), 1976
"A Challenge to Artists",(on Mao Tse-tung's philosophy of art), China Now, Oct 1976
"Talking with Huhsien Painters", China Now, Dec 1976
"Performances by Virgil Calaguian", Readings, London, Feb 1977
"Interview: Joris Ivens & Marceline Loridan", China Now, March 1977
"An Art Services Officer Talks Freely . . ." ('found' interview), Art Monthly, May 1977
"Pains of a Panel Member", Art Monthly, Sept 1977
"Patchwork Pictures from Chile", Spare Rib, Sept 1977
"All that glitters . . ." (critique of populism in museums), Art Monthly, April 1979
"Georgina Hunt, paintings", Art Monthly, July/Aug 1978
"Cultural Colonialism: a Discussion", Black Phoenix, Spring 1979
"Joris Ivens", Tribune, Oct 1979
"Just What is Modernism?", Art Monthly, Dec 1979
"Susan Hiller", Art Monthly, March 1980
"Signs", Art Monthly, May 1980
"What is the Tradition?", Art Monthly, July/Aug 1980
"Lea Lublin", Art Monthly, Oct 1980
"The Mural Style of Diego Rivera", Block, Spring 1980
"Complexity of Causes: Performance Art Works by David Medalla", Art Monthly, April 1981
"The Unofficial History of Sculpture", City Limits, Jan 15-21 1982
"The Body in Question", interview with Roberto Matta (with Malcolm Imrie), City Limits, March 5-11 1982
"Fragments of Life" (Susan Hiller), City Limits, March 12-18, 1982
"Out of the Shadows: Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti", City Limits, March 26-April 1 1982
"The Shostakovich Paintings of Aubrey Williams", Index (London), April 1982
"Leon Golub", City Limits, July 16-22 1982
"Jean Tinguely", City Limits, Sept 17-23 1982
"Nigerian Archeology", City Limits, Nov 26-Dec 2 1982
"Susan Hiller",Art Monthly, May 1983
"The Live Weekend: First Festival of Performance at Bracknell", Art Monthly, Sept 1983
"Hannah Collins: an Introduction", Creative Camera, Feb 1985
"Arpilleras de Chile", Pacapaya (London), No3, 1985
"Forgetting and Remembering: The Survivors' Paintings of Hiroshima", Art Monthly, July/Aug 1985
"RoadWorks: Brixton", Artscribe, July/Aug 1985
"Snakes and Ladders: Profile of Tina Keane", Performance, Aug/Sept 1985
"An Arts Sponsorship Conference as a Piece of Performance Art", And, No 6, 1985
"Kunst mit Eigen-Sinn, Vienna",Studio International, Vol 198, No 1009, 1985
"David Medalla", San Juan (Manila), Dec 1985
"Carlyle Reedy",Art Monthly, Feb 1986
"Rasheed Araeen", Art Monthly, March 1986
"Home Truths: New Works by Susan Hiller", Studio International, Vol 199, No 1012
"Caspar Neher, Brecht's Designer", Studio International, Vol 199 No 1013
"No Pasaran!", Creative Camera, No 7, 1986
"On-going Inquiry - Susan Hiller at the ICA", The Guardian, 23 October 1986.
"Staging the Self", Art Monthly, Dec/Jan 1986-7
"Avantgarde Art In Chile" (book review), Art Monthly, March 1987
"Don't Stop the Carnival" (about Mikhail Bakhtin), City Limits, April 30-May 7 1987
"Experiment or Institutionalisation?", Performance Magazine, May/June 1987
"State of the Art", Studio International, Vol 200 No 1016.
"Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera", Art Monthly, September 1987
"Lygia Clark - the borderline of life and art", Third Text No 1, Autumn 1987
"Documenta 8: Myth and Mummification", Studio International, November 1987
"Depicting History: For Today", Art Monthly, 1988
"Hélio Oiticica: Reverie and Revolt", Art in America, New York, January 1989
"The English Climate" (on Rose English), Artscribe, May 1989
"Terre et Museé - Local et Global", Les Cahiers du Museé d'art moderne, 1989. (Reprinted in English as "Earth and Museum - Local and Global", Third Text No. 6, Spring 1989).
"Impromptus: David Medalla", Art In America, New York, November 1989.
Interview, Galeria (São Paulo), 1989
"David Medalla: from Biokinetics to Synoptic Realism", Third Text, London, no 8/9, Autumn/Winter 1989.
"Transcontinental", Revista de Critica Cultural, Santiago de Chile, May 1990.
"Being Drawn to an Image", Oxford Art Journal, Oxford, vol 14 no 1, January 1991.
"Susan Hiller's Shadowland", Art in America, New York, April 1991.
"Wicked, wicked, wicked: Susan Hiller's An Entertainment", Performance, London, Summer 1991.
"Critics Forum on Nationalism", Art in America, New York, September 1991.
"Le Cinétisme et la tradition en peinture et sculpture", Artstudio, Paris, no 22, Autumn 1991.
"The Limits of Imperviousness", Third Text No 18, Spring 1992.
"The Undiscovered America", Art + Text No 43, September 1992.
"In the Year of Columbus", Art Monthly Australia, September 1992.
"Venice, Paris, Kassel, São Paulo and Havana", Third Text No 20. Autumn 1992. (Reprinted in Kunstforum, no 124, November-December 1993).
"The Sixties art scene in London", Third Text, no 23, summer 1993.
"A Paradox of Containment" (on Helio Oiticica's "Returning Earth to Earth"), Cahiers #2, Witte de With, Rotterdam, June 1994.
"In Search of the Body: Lygia Clark", Art in America, July 1994.
"New Measures", Parkett no 42, 1994.
"Fait sur le Corps: le Parangolé de Hélio Oiticica", Les Cahiers du Musée d_art moderne, Paris, Spring 1995.
"David Medalla - A Certain Way of Life", Art & Design (special issue: "Art & Cultural Difference: Hybrids and Clusters" edited by Nikos Papastergiadis). London, 1995.
"Museum Parangolé", Trans, New York, vol 1 no 1, Fall 1995.
"Moedercel: Architectonische ideeën in het werk van Lygia Clark en Hélio Oiticica / Mother-Cell: Architectural ideas in the work of Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica", Archis, no 7, Rotterdam July 1996.
"Changing Places" (on Martha Fleming_s Open Book), Art Monthly no 200, London October 1996.
"Movement among Movements", Cahiers #6, Witte de With, Rotterdam, July 1997.
"Rose Finn-Kelcey" (Camden Arts Centre), Art Monthly no. 212, London, December 1997-January 1998.
"Abstract Activist" (on Rasheed Araeen), Art In America, New York, February 1998.
"David Medalla", Grand Street no. 65, New York, 1998.
"Susan Hiller: the Secrets of Sunset Beach", Grand Street no. 66, New York, 1998.