The essays examine diverse practices, including interactive installation and environmental art, offering instructive discussion of intersections between art, feminism, and film and of the evolution of the London art scene in the 1960s70s. Recommended.
C. J. Jolivette Choice The volume is bound to become an essential resource for anyone working in the field of twentieth-century British art, including those with a special interest in the continued development of sculpture in the context of the dematerialization of the art object. What is more, the book will undoubtedly prompt further research into the rich artistic worlds it maps out. I, for one, am thrilled by this prospect.
Giulia Smith The Sculpture Journal The sixtiesless so the seventiesis a crowded field, but this original and provocative collection challenges received wisdom on the period. It casts new light on work by women artists and filmmakers; on conceptual, performance, feminist, and other kinds of politicized and often collaborative activity; on the increasingly international traffic in artists and ideas; and on a counterculture unfolding across two decades from the Britain of Harold Wilson to the emergence of Margaret Thatcher.
Lisa Tickner, author of Modern Life and Modern Subjects: British Art in the Early Twentieth Century The fascinating episodes recounted in London Art Worlds expand, deepen, and complicate what we mean by the art history of the 1960s and 1970swhether in the capital, across Britain, or on an international stage.
Thomas E. Crow, author of The Long March of Pop: Art, Music, and Design, 1930 to 1995 London Art Worlds is a fresh and original rethinking of experimental art practices of the 1960s and 1970s produced in Britain that provides an important supplement to critical postcolonial studies of the period. The London that emerges is not the complacently assumed center of the former empire, but a contingent site for a new set of global networks and a sometimes temporary home for a diverse range of artists who may or may not claim Britishness.
Siona Wilson, author of Art Labor, Sex Politics: Feminist Effects in 1970s British Art and Performance
