‘Not London’: Art school magazines, conceptual art and the Newport Group

Lee, Louisa (2019) ‘Not London’: Art school magazines, conceptual art and the Newport Group. In: Annual Conference 2019.

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Abstract

The student magazines produced in British art schools in the 1970s provided an integral space for dialogue from student to student or from student to teacher, demonstrating a form of generational intersubjectivity through networks rather than hierarchical transmission of knowledge. In this paper, I argue that the content of these magazines were not radically different from those produced in the 1960s as both were based on a commitment to dialogue. Rather, art school magazines in the 1970s enacted a discursive, or recursive relationship to these earlier magazines, which saw their sites and contexts change rather than their ideologies. This dissemination mirrored a larger relationship of 1960s to 1970s art, yet it was the site of the art school magazine where it was most evident. For this dissemination and dialogue, I argue, the site of the magazine was integral. This paper explores a group of students producing Art-Language-inspired publications in the early 1970s at Newport College of Art in South Wales, provisionally and retrospectively called The Newport Group and concludes by looking to the magazines Ratcatcher, Issue and Ostrich, which were produced in the mid-1970s out of Hull College of Art, Nottingham Trent and the Royal College of Art respectively. I argue that an alternative definition of the continuation and development of conceptual art practice in Britain from the 1960s through to the 1970s can be traced through the plurality of voices identified in these student publications.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Divisions:	College of Creative Arts, Technology and Engineering > Creative Arts and Design
Depositing User:	Research and Knowledge Exchange Office Admin 1
Date Deposited:	27 Jul 2026 10:18
Last Modified:	27 Jul 2026 10:18
URI:	https://bnu.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/21450

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