Paperback, colour and black and white illustrations, 172 pages, W215mm x H260mm
This catalogue
accompanies an exhibition which surveys Ikon Gallery’s artistic programme
during c.1970 – 1978.
It is the second chapter in the story of Ikon, following
on from our 2004 exhibition, The best
things in life happen accidentally, featuring work by founder artists,
their colleagues, friends and acquaintances.
The ethos they instilled in the
organisation, whereby an emphasis on aesthetic innovation was matched by
efforts towards greater accessibility, was assumed by their successors as they
engaged in a bigger picture that involved artists from further afield in the
UK, and occasionally from abroad.
The catalogue contains biographies of all the artists in the exhibition, material from
the 70’s found in Ikon’s archive, installation photographs and essays.