Editing Art & Language (section)

==History==
[[File:Secret painting mel ramsden art language.jpg|thumb|[[Secret Painting]] Art & Language (Mel Ramsden), 1967]]
[[File:Art language mirror piece conceptual art.jpg|thumb|[[Mirror Piece]], 1965]]
[[File:Art language air conditioning show conceptual contemporary art.jpg|thumb|Air conditioning show 1966-7]]
The Art & Language group was founded around 1967 in the United Kingdom by [[Terry Atkinson]] (b. 1939), [[David Bainbridge (artist)|David Bainbridge]] (b. 1941), [[Michael Baldwin (artist)|Michael Baldwin]] (b. 1945) and [[Harold Hurrell]] (b. 1940).<ref>Neil Mulholland, ''The Cultural Devolution: art in Britain in the late twentieth century'', Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2003, p165. {{ISBN|0-7546-0392-X}}</ref> The group was critical of what was considered mainstream modern art practices at the time. In their work conversations, they created gallery art and presented these ideas in a journal as part of their discussions.<ref name="Tate-A&L">{{cite web |title=Art Term: Art & Language |url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/a/art-language |website=Tate Museum |access-date=3 March 2023}}</ref>

The first issue of ''[[Art-Language|Art-Language: The Journal of Conceptual Art]]'' (Volume 1, Number 1) was published in May 1969.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.leftmatrix.com/artlanguage.html|title=Art & Language|access-date=21 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190123124657/http://www.leftmatrix.com/artlanguage.html|archive-date=23 January 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 1972, the group created ''Index 01'', consisting of 350 texts placed inside 8 filing cabinets. These texts were "indexed according to their logical and ideological (in)compatibility", to assert a "critical inquiry into art practice as an art activity in itself".<ref name="Frieze-2002">{{cite journal |last1=Morton |first1=Tom |title=Art & Language: Musee d'Art Moderne Lille Metropole, France |journal=Frieze |date=4 April 2002 |issue=66 |url=https://www.frieze.com/article/art-language-0 |access-date=3 March 2023}}</ref> The Art & Language group that exhibited in the international ''[[Documenta 5]]'' exhibitions of 1972 included Atkinson, Bainbridge, Baldwin, Hurrell, Pilkington, Rushton, and Joseph Kosuth, the American editor of ''[[Art-Language The Journal of conceptual art|Art-Language]]''.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GAa9BwAAQBAJ&q=index+wrongs+healed+in+official+hope+art&pg=PA97|title=Arte y archivo, 1920-2010: Genealogías, tipologías y discontinuidades|last=Guasch|first=Anna María|date=2011-02-11|publisher=Ediciones AKAL|isbn=9788446038146|language=es}}</ref> The work consisted of a filing system of material published and circulated by Art & Language members.<ref>Anna Bentkowska-Kafel, Trish Cashen, Hazel Gardiner, ''Digital Visual Culture: Theory and Practice'', Intellect Books, 2009, p104. {{ISBN|1-84150-248-0}}</ref> π