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Michael Baldwin (born 1945 in
Examples of his works
Art & Language: Blurting in A & L online
{{DEFAULTSORT:Baldwin, Michael 1945 births Living people People from Chipping Norton Alumni of Coventry School of Art and Design Artists from Oxfordshire British conceptual artists English contemporary artists Art & Language
Michael Baldwin (born 1945 in Chipping Norton
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, Oxfordshire
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, England
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; lives in Middleton Cheney
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, near Banbury
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, England) is a British conceptual artist, author and founding member of the Art & Language
Art & Language is an English conceptual artists' collaboration that has undergone many changes since it was created around 1967. The group was founded by artists who shared a common desire to combine intellectual ideas and concerns with the cre ...
artist group.
Life and work
Michael Baldwin studied atCoventry College of Art
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from 1964 to 1967 and taught at Lanchester Polytechnic in Coventry
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from 1969 to 1971 and at Leamington School of Art from 1969.
Mirror piece
Mirror Piece is a 1965 contemporary art Installation art, installation by Michael Baldwin (artist), Michael Baldwin, a member of the United Kingdom, British conceptual art collective Art & Language.
Description
''Mirror Piece'' is an installatio ...
is an installation of variable dimensions he created in 1965. It is composed of multiple mirrors of different sizes covered with regular or deforming glass plates, presented on wooden panels. This installation is accompanied by a protocol and text panels.
Michael Baldwin met the artist Terry Atkinson in 1966 at Coventry College of Art, where Atkinson taught. They founded the avant-garde Art & Language group in 1968.
As a member of Art & Language in 1972, Michael Baldwin took part in Documenta 5 in Kassel
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with the project ''Index 0001'' in the ''Idea + Idea/Light'' section, together with the Art & Language artists Terry Atkinson, David Bainbridge, Ian Burn, Charles Harrison, Harold Hurrell, Mel Ramsden and Joseph Kosuth. With Art & Language he was also represented at Documenta 6 (1977), Documenta 7 in 1982 and Documenta X in 1997.
Since 1977, Baldwin and Ramsden have continued Art & Language as a project. Many texts were written with Charles Harrison and Mel Ramsden, who has been publishing "Art-Language
''Art-Language: The Journal of Conceptual Art'' (1969-1985) was a magazine published by the conceptual artists of Art & Language. Involving more than 20 artists in the United States, Europe, and Australia, and covering almost 20 years producti ...
" since 1971.
References
* Exhibition catalogue: ''documenta 5: Questioning reality – visual worlds today''. Catalogue (as file) Volume 1: (material); Volume 2: (list of exhibitions); Kassel 1972 * documenta Archiv (ed.): ''Wiedervorlage d5 – Eine Befragung des Archivs zum documenta 1972''. Kassel/Ostfildern 2001, * Catalogue for documenta 6: Volume 1: ''Painting, Sculpture/Environment, Performance''. Volume 2: Photography, Film, Video. Volume 3: Hand Drawings, Utopian Design, Books. Kassel 1977 * Catalogue: ''documenta 7 Kassel''. Volume 1: (Visual biographies of the artists); Volume 2: (Current works of the artists); Kassel 1982 * (documenta 10 catalogue): ''Politics – Poetics – the book on documenta X''. Kassel/Ostfildern 1997, (German) / (English) * Marzona, Daniel: ''Conceptual Art''. Cologne 2005External links
Examples of his works
Art & Language: Blurting in A & L online
{{DEFAULTSORT:Baldwin, Michael 1945 births Living people People from Chipping Norton Alumni of Coventry School of Art and Design Artists from Oxfordshire British conceptual artists English contemporary artists Art & Language