Art-Language Vol. 3 No. 1

Art-Language Vol. 3 No. 1
Publication	Art-Language
Date	September 1974
Volume	3
Number	1
Publisher
Editor	Ian Burn, Mel Ramsden, Terry Smith

Contents

	Title	pg.
1	Caution	1
2	Somewhere to Begin	2-4
3	Language has a Hold on us	5-7
4	Market Relations	8-9
5	Apodictic Tableaux	10-12
6	Ideal Speakers...	13-14
7	Annotations... Selective Memory (Histrionics?)...	15-17
8	Cacophonous...	18-19
9	Bureaucracy...	20
10	Points of Order?	21-22
11	No Refuge in 'Audience'...	23-26
12	'Sometimes I feel like an Artist...'	27-31
13	Institutional Serenity	32-35
14	A 'Logic' of Going-On?	36
15	Do We Have Anything like 'Assertion'?	37-41
16	What are we doing in Language?	42-43
17	'Consistency' is an Ideological Postulate	44-47
18	Dead Horse...	48-49
19	Iteration	50
20	More Exhortations?	51-53
21	Joseph Kosuth says that the group is a Cultural Ghetto	54-55
22	...Overboard about Kierkegaard	57-59
23	Fur Teacups	60-61
24	Straight Talk?	62-63
25	Equivocating...	64-67
26	Routine...	68
27	...Corpse of Official Language	69-70
28	We Wish they had a Dictionary	71-73
29	...Concatenation...	74-75
30	Bxal-ing	76-79
31	Endless Revisability...	80-82
32	Striving in the Uproar	83-86
33	Art-Career Components	87-89
34	The Unreality of this Culture	90-97
35	Modeish about Cultural Indeterminacy	98-100
36	Exploitation... Education...	101-103
37	Shop-Floorish?	104-105
38	Leftish Critique	106-108
39	Sporadic Encounter	109-110

Retrospectives

Charles Harrison

Differences in economic opportunity and differences in geographic and cultural location were factors always likely to lead to fragmentation of Art & Language. The journal Art-Language provided some point of public identification or common ground during the early 1970s. From the start, though, it had been edited and controlled in England. In recognition of the increasingly transatlantic character of the group, Art-Language, vol. 3, no. 1, was composed entirely of transcripts from conversations recorded in New York and was edited by Burn, Ramsden, and Smith. This edition of the journal was published in September 1974 with the subtitle 'Draft for an Anti-Textbook'. That this publication was largely disregarded in England, however, served only to emphasize the grounds of divergence of interests. With the publication of The Fox in New York the following April, the quorateness of Art-Language itself was finally called into question.