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Art and Language [Art & Language].
English group of conceptual artists founded in 1968 by Terry Atkinson (b 1939), Michael Baldwin (b 1945), David Bainbridge (b 1941) and Harold Hurrell (b 1940). In May 1969 they established the journal Art–Language, which was edited from 1971 by the critic Charles Harrison (b 1942), who had met them in 1969. They rapidly acquired associates outside England, especially in New York; by 1969 Joseph Kosuth, the Australian Ian Burn (b 1939) and another English artist, Mel Ramsden (b 1944), were affiliated to the group, as were many others for varying periods of time over the succeeding years. Motivated essentially by a sceptical interest in modernist art and its concomitant ideology, they produced discursive texts intended as a critique of modernism and the interrelationships between art, the art market and society. Some of these appeared in their journal, while others were printed as limited editions and sold as art works. The frequent allusions to philosophy and linguistics mark these texts, paradoxically, with an introverted élitism typical of much modernist art.
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