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p.7 NEWS
Artists issues, issues in art and media
p.14 ARTISTS PAGE
'The Defence of the Realm'
Profific Pamphleteer
p.15 PREVIEWS
Karen Strang on the 10th anniversary of the National Review of Live Art.
Lorna J. Waite on the Women in Profile season.
Malcolm Dickson on the TSW A - 4 Cities Project.
p.20 ARTISTS PAGE
'The Defence of the Realm'
Prolific Pamphleteer
p.21 COMMON SENSE AND FREEDOM
Variant interviews Jim Kelman on the work of Noam Chomsky and its connections with the Scottish tradition of Common Sense philosophy, followed by an excerpt from a new Noam Chomsky essay written for the Self Determination and Power conference held in Glasgow in January 1990.
p.27 'COULD DO BETTER'
Jo Spence on art, class, and shame.
p.33 A NATIONAL CULTURE
Paul Wood looks back on the major 'Scottish Art since 1900' exhibition and questions the validity of its history making.
p.39 THE BIGGEST FREEBIE OF THEM ALL
Roland Miller on Glasgow's big day.
p.41 DAVID HARDING
David Harding, Scotland's first town artist, talks to Variant about community art in the 1970's and the issues affecting public art today.
PROJECT REVIEWS
Either/Or p.49
William Clark
Sites/Positions, Edge 90 Glasgow p.51
Craig Richardson
Whaur Extremes Meet p.51
Murdo MacDonald
The Well of Patience p.52
Fiona Byrne-Sutton
19:4:90 TV Interventions p.53
Calum McKintyre
BOOK REVIEWS
'The Missing Line: PostModernism, Politics and Art' p.55
Peter Suchin
'Dada Turns Red: The Politics of Surrealism' p.56
Alex Richards
Give me the order, and I'll cross the border p.58
'Class Myths and Culture'; 'Minefields'; 'IF' Comix
Ed Baxter
European Echoes: A review of some recent magazines p.59
Alex Richards
COMMENT
Looking Out for Small-Scale Film and Video by Ken Gill p.61 |
