The Neoist Network’s First European Training Camp (1982)

Catalogue from the The Neoist Network’s First European Training Camp which took place at Peter Below’s Studio ’58 in Würzburg, West Germany, from 21st to 27th June 1982.

Participants included Peter Below, Monty Cantsin (Istvan Kantor), Filmsyndikat (Hannelore Kober, Jonny Döbele), Blalla W. Hallmann, E.F. Higgins, Bruno Hoffmann, Petra Homeyer, Pete Horobin, H.J. Hummel, Michael Keane, Annette Pfau, Wolfgang-E. Kämer, Wulle Konsumkunst, Niels Lomholt, Masaaki Maekawa, Andreas Mathyl, Nathalie Mongeau, Winfried Pieper, Gerhard Schröder, Fritz Stier, Stiletto, tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE, Gabor Toth, a.o.

Edited by Kryptic Press [Peter Below], Würzburg, and Centre de recherche Neoiste [Istvan Kantor], Montreal, 1982
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Vanja Malloy (ed.): Intersecting Colors: Josef Albers and His Contemporaries (2015)

“Josef Albers (1888–1976) was an artist, teacher, and seminal thinker on the perception of color. A member of the Bauhaus who fled to the U.S. in 1933, his ideas about how the mind understands color influenced generations of students, inspired countless artists, and anticipated the findings of neuroscience in the latter half of the twentieth century.

With contributions from the disciplines of art history, the intellectual and cultural significance of Gestalt psychology, and neuroscience, Intersecting Colors offers a timely reappraisal of the immense impact of Albers’s thinking, writing, teaching, and art on generations of students. It shows the formative influence on his work of non-scientific approaches to color (notably the work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) and the emergence of Gestalt psychology in the first decades of the twentieth century. The work also shows how much of Albers’s approach to color—dismissed in its day by a scientific approach to the study and taxonomy of color driven chiefly by industrial and commercial interests—ultimately anticipated what neuroscience now reveals about how we perceive this most fundamental element of our visual experience.”

With contributions from Brenda Danilowitz, Sarah Lowengard, Karen Koehler, Jeffrey Saletnik, and Susan R. Barry.

Publisher Amherst College Press, Amherst, MA, Sep 2015
Creative Commons 4.0 CC-BY-NC-ND License
ISBN 781943208012 (Ebook), 9781943208005 (Print)
vi+99 pages

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Oz Magazine (1963-73)

“Having outraged the Australian establishment with a satirical magazine called Oz, the editor and founder Richard Neville and artist and cartoonist Martin Sharp hightailed it to swinging London. They immersed themselves in the alternative culture of artists, activists, writers and musicians who operated underground of the mainstream.

This underground fuelled by the optimism and excitement of the time and financed largely by the rock aristocracy and dope dealing wanted to change the world. Richard Neville relaunched Oz magazine in the same satirical style as the Australian version, it was not long before L.S.D. altered minds and Oz exploded into a riot of colour and along with the already existing IT newspaper became a mouthpiece for the underground. Oz lasted for 48 issues from the start of 1967 to the end of 1973.” (Source)

“Oz was a focal point for many confrontations between progressive and conservative groups over a range of issues including the Vietnam War, drugs, the generation gap, censorship, sexuality, gender politics and rock music, and it was instrumental in bringing many of these concerns to wider public attention. Above all, it focused public attention on the issue of free speech in democratic society, and on how far short of the ideal Australian and English society actually was at that time.

Through both its lives, the two key figures in Oz were Neville and Sharp, but the ‘honour roll’ of Oz alumni includes many famous names like Robert Hughes, Richard Walsh, Germaine Greer, Jim Anderson, Felix Dennis and Charles Shaar Murray.” (Source)

Published in Sydney, 1963-69, and London, 1967-73

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OZ & Yellow House Collections, gallery (1960s-70s)