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Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Book. Complete set of Stephen Willats' seminal periodical 'Control'. First 5 issues: 310 x 225 mm with screenprinted wrappers. Later issues have printed pictorial wrappers and are slightly smaller in format. Since 1965, this pioneering conceptual art magazine has published original artwork and writing from over 150 artists, alongside collectives and collaboratives such as Artists Placement Group. Issue 13 features an original work by Anish Kapoor of an insect-object sprayed blue; together with a photocopy collage intervention by Glenys Johnson entitled Agent Orange. Issue 3 comes complete with inserts: Poem-Blanc by John Sharkey and Peter Upward's untitled painting. This seminal publication is significant for its community-based approach, and its theories based on cybernetics and social science. Its content rejected a traditional mode of criticism and instead concentrated on theoretical ideas, technical models and artistic methods: Control is purely a magazine of art theory, in the sense that it presented text by artists looking at the thinking behind their work (Willats, Publishing Interventions, 2 in In Numbers: Serial Publications by artists since 1955, PPP Editions, Zurich, 1999, p. 129). While within the remit of the art magazine, Control is notable for its interdisciplinary reach. As the artist has commented, the magazine's origins were a reaction to a very strong inheritance from previous decades that constrained the artists into very set roles of painting, sculpture and traditional mediums (ibid). Contents - Issue 1, 1965, contributors (C): Loggie Barrow, Roy Ascot, Stephen Willats, Mark Boyle et al/No.2, 66, C: Stroud Cornock, Adrian Berg, Willats, Tom Phillips et al/ No.3, 67, C: Joe Tilson, Noel Forster, Peter Cook-Archigram Group, John Latham (Noit for Control), Willats, an original painted insert by Peter Upward, John Sharkey (Poem-Blanc) et al. Comes with a tipped-in envelope containing Three Light Modulators/No.4, 68, C: Victor Burgin, Norman Toynton, Sharkey, Willats, Douglas Sandle, et al/No.5, 69, C: Laurie Burt, Don Mason, Sharkey, Rick Oginz, Willats (on APG) et al/No.6, 71, C: Jan Kopinski, Willats, Sharkey, Ernest Edmonds, David Budgen et al/No.7, 73, C: Kevin Lole, Peter Smith, Willats, Howard O' Conner, John Stezaker/No.8, 74, C: Lole, Joe Wilson, Andrew Ironside, Willats, Gerald Laing, Stezaker et al/No.9, 75, C: Peter Smith, Dan Graham, Herve Fischer, Willats, Alan Sondheim et al / No.10, 77, C: Jon Bird, Peter Dunn & Loraine Leeson, Jane Kelly, Mary Kelly et al/ No.11, 79, C: Tony Rickaby, Willats, Ray Barrie, Kelly, Fern Tiger, Graham et al/No.12, 81, C: Lili Fisch, Willats, Helen Chadwick, Michael Peel, Bernhard Sandfort, Fred Forest et al/No.13, '82, C: Bill Woodrow (TV Blind), Glenys Johnson (Agent Orange), Jenny Holzer, Kate Blacker, Jean-Luc Vilmouth, Willats, Sue Arrowsmith, Tony Bevan, Tony Cragg and a blue sprayed insect work by Anish Kapoor: I once saw an insect in a pile of colour, it seemed to me that this was almost a work. (p32)/No.14, 90, C: Andrew Wilson, Lawrence Weiner, Rita Pacquee, Andreas Seltzer, Dennis Adams, Stephen Bann & Bob Chaplin, Martha Rosler, Willats, Michael Gibbs, Endre Tot, Simon Cutts & Colin Sackett et al/No.15, 96, C: Poster Studio, Alan Murray, Denise Hawrysio, Oliver Whitehead, Alan Kane & Jeremy Deller, Oliver Cieslik & Barbara Schenk, Les Levine, Liam Gillick, Willats et al/No.16, 01, C: Jakob Jakobsen, David Goldenberg, Art Lab, Nils Norman, Elinor Jansz, Christabel Stewart & Emily Pethick, Hamish Fulton, Sarah Staton, David Beech, Willats, et al / No.17, 07, C: French Mottershead, Jakobsen, Dan Kidner, Langlands & Bell, Nils Norman, Miriam Steinhauser, Willats, Chris Hammond et al/No.18, 09, C: Vito Acconci, Karolin Meunier, Willats, Erwin van Doorn, Dan Mitchell, Annette Krauss, Thomas Hirschhorn, Harmen de Hoop et al. / No.19, 14, C: Christian Nyampeta, Rosalie Schweiker, Ricardo Basbaum, Andrea Francke, Emma Smith, Willats, Eva Weinmayr, Taylor & Zaharia et al / No.20, 17, C: Merlin Carpenter, Bedfellows, Francisco Camacho Herrera, Radio Anti, Willats, Eliana Otta et al / No.21, C: Helen Walker & Harun Morrison, Pete Clarke, Lucie Kolb, Gary Bratchford & Robin Parkinson, Rebecca Davies & Eva Sajovic, Elina Otta, Stephen Willats, Javier Calderon, Chalton Gallery. Collated and correct. Near fine.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: good +. Control Issue Eleven: Self Organisation, The Expression of Counter Consciousness. 220 x 304 mm. 28pp., printed black on white staplebound stock. Contributions by Tony Rickaby, Steve Willats, Ray Barrie, Mary Kelly, Fern Tiger, Dieter Hacker, Peter Dunn, Loraine Leeson, Dan Graham, Raimund Kummer, Herman Pitz. 'Eleven' is a rare issue from the Control Magazine series - quite difficult to find. Condition: some minor wear to cover, insides clean and no tears. Overall: Fine.

Condition: very good. Rosetta Brooks, ed. A Survey of the Avant-Garde in Britain, Vol. I, 18th August 8th September, 1972. Gallery House Press, London. 291 x 210mm. 42pp. Perfect bound book, printed black on white stock, featuring 'three independent exhibitions and a small series of lectures' from Stephen Willats, Ian Parkinson, Michael Dye, David Medalla, John Dugger, Graham Stevens, Michael Upton, Jun Terra, Bill Lundberg, Roderick Coyne, and Stuart Brisley. Listings include photographs of exhibitions with image descriptions, printed lectures, and artist biographies printed as timelines. In her introduction, Rosetta Brooks posits, 'In presenting exhibitions under the title of 'avant-garde' it might suggest that I am affirming the usefulness of the concept and it might even be interpreted that there is a characteristic, common in all such work, which makes it avant-garde. This however is not my intention; much of the work in the exhibition is attempting to redefine the basis of art activity along less paradoxical lines and in accordance with a variety of conventions which have previously been alien to the activity.' Condition: foxing to covers, coffee ring stain to back cover and red biro note to back cover, internally near fine. No tears, poor cover, contents very good +/near fine. Overall very good.