John Latham
Early Works 1954 - 1972
London, UK: Lisson Gallery, 1987
40 pp., 10.04 x 0.39 x 8.46”, softcover
Edition of 1200
A catalogue published on the occasion of a John Latham exhibition held at the Lisson Gallery,
January 14th to March 14th, 1987.
"No product of the sixties phenomenon ‘concept art’? produced anywhere survives with the distinction of Latham’s piece on Clement Greenberg’s Art and Culture (1965). For those too young to remember this historic happening I should say that it began with a party held in 1966 1n which students and friends of Latham chewed pages of Greenberg’s book (borrowed from the library of St Martin’s School of Art) and spat the pulp into a centrally placed bowl. The fermented mash was distilled and the resultant spirit of Art and Culture was offered to the library in a test tube in 1967 in reply to a request for the return of an overdue loan; Latham was sacked from his teaching job — but the work is now part of the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, NY."
- Richard Hamilton, introduction
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