BLAST TO FREEZE: BRITISH ART IN THE AGE OF EXTREMES
21 September 2002 - 5 January 2003
Henry Meyric Hughes has sent me details of a major exhibition and catalogue
which he is partly organising, and for which he needs an extensive
bibliography compiled. Some details are below. If you are interested and
if you would like to know more about this project, please contact him
direct. (I have not included the attachments he sent me but I'm sure he
would be happy to forward them to individuals.)
Meg Duff
Librarian
Tate Library
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Dear Meg Duff,
I was very grateful for your quick response to my enquiry about someone who
might be able to do a bibliography for the major, forthcoming exhibition,
'Blast to Freeze', at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg and, possibly, one further
venue .
The catalogue for the exhibition is being published by the museum in
Wolfsburg and printed by Cantz Verlag, Stuttgart, who are also in the
process of setting up a partnership with a British distributor for the
English language edition. The attached summary should serve to give you a
fairly accurate picture of the project, as a whole, since it closely
reflects the topics highlighted in the various sections of the exhibition.
You will see from this that Robert Hewison is writing a general, 6,000-word
essay for the catalogue, and Robert is also compiling a 30-page chronology
of political, historical and cultural events (divided into different
periods), to underpin the chronology, both of the catalogue and of the
exhibition itself.
What we are now looking for is someone who could set to work fairly
speedily, to concoct an extensive bibliography of British art and a shorter
reading list on parallel social, cultural and political developments during
the 'short' 20th century, from 1910 to 1990, as a whole (though this shorter
reading list might, at a pinch, be something we could prevail on Robert
Hewison to do).. We have set aside 10 pages in the catalogue for this, but
of course I find it difficult to determine how long the bibliography should
be, or how many items would fit into 10 pages, each of, say, 30 x 22 cm -
especially, since we have not yet decided on the type size. Ideally, I
should be able to talk all this through in some detail with the person who
was going to do the work.
I should greatly appreciate any help you might be able to give.with
publicising the opportunity - and the work - this might present to someone
suitably qualified, who might best, perhaps, be encouraged to contact me
direct, in the first instance, either at my e-mail address or at: 13
Ashchurch Grove, London W12 9BT. Tel / Fax 020 8739 498. (And do let me
know, if you need further information of any kind!).
With best regards and, again, thanks,
Henry Meyric Hughes.
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