We went to the Barbican gallery today to see the Panic Attack exhibit which was all about art during the punk years. The picture I put up is of one of the huge black and white drawings that looked like a photo. The exhibition showed worked produced from about the mid 70’s to the mid 80’s both in Britain and in the US punk scenes. These times periods are known a lot for their music and fashion, but there were also a lot of artists exploring new areas during that time. It was more about documenting the process of creating than the final result.
Some of the Artists in the exhibition:
Keith Harring, Steven Willats, Martha Rosler, David Lamelas, Adrian Piper, Peter Hujar, Robert Maplethorpe, Jamie Reid, Victor Burgin, Tony Cragg, Barbara Kruger, Robert Longo, Richard Prince, John Stezaker
Robert Sheppard of Faulkner’s book store set up a cute little cocktail party for us at the art worker’s guild, and then gave us a talk about bookbinding. The main story he told was of the very expensive book, The Great Omar, which was worked on for years and years and when it was sold sailed across the ocean in the Titanic, and that was the end of that. The man working on it tried again to replicate the book, and when it was almost finished it was destroyed in a bombing in London. I think it was his nephew that eventually completed one, although it was never as perfect as the original. It was almost like a sad love story!
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