Based on close archival research, Christian Weikop (main author and guest editor) uncovers unknown and exciting narratives, as well as artist networks, concerning this provocative 1970 exhibition, held at ECA. The author has previously considered the British press reception of SGA in an article for Tate Papers, but this Studies in Photography-EUP book publication goes far beyond that article and any other scholarship on the exhibition by taking into account (for the first time) the contributions of all 35 artists based in Düsseldorf, and incorporating testimony of individuals who were involved in this landmark exhibition, or who were later engaged in archive exhibitions or recreation projects. Weikop explores the formation of the exhibition in the context of a late 1960s culture of protests and occupations, and demonstrates that SGA was a pivotal ‘Shock of the New’ moment that would leave its mark on art education.
Author(s): Christian Weikop
Series: Studies in Photography
Edition: 1
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 232
Acknowledgements
Contents
Foreword, Keith Hartley
Foreword, Juan Cruz
Preface
Introduction
Richard Demarco and the Formation of Strategy: Get Arts
Düsseldorf in Edinburgh: The Importance of the Germans
Düsseldorf in Edinburgh: Appendix A. Jürgen Harten on Strategy: Get Arts
SGA’s ‘Shock of the New’: Art Education, Joseph Beuys, and Jon Schueler
Strategy: Get Arts and Broadcast Media
Photography at and in Strategy: Get Arts
A Turning Point Jennifer Gough-Cooper
Gallery Assistants – SGA Alexander Hamilton
35 Artists Who Broke the Rules Christian Weikop
Exhibiting an Exhibition: Strategy: Get Arts in the Richard Demarco Archive
SGA50 Douglas and Matilda Hall
Contributors
Further Reading
Index
