Geology 1967-68

Unspecified edition of 200, unnumbered. Signed by both artists on the title page.

Geology is a feasibility study for a large object across the Dee estuary - on geographical bases.

The Art & Language group was founded in 1967/8 in the United Kingdom by artists Terry Atkinson, David Bainbridge, Michael Baldwin and Harold Hurrell, four artists who began collaborating around 1966 while teaching art in Coventry. The name of the group was derived from their journal Art-Language, which existed as a work in conversation as early as 1966. Charles Harrison and Mel Ramsden joined the group in 1970, and between 1968 and 1982 up to 50 people were associated with the group.

Art & Language’s work is characterised by a diverse array of activities and projects commonly characterised by the resistance to categorisation and by an ‘openness of effect’ and meaning. Their oeuvre marks a historical turn toward a more theoretical, linguistic and critical intervention into the context of fine arts production. Much of their work provokes reflection on the institutional conditions of making and contemplating works of art and reflects critically on the history of modern art and contemporary practice, as well as the uses and functionality to which culture and cultural objects are put. A central concern of their oeuvre from the beginning, as the name Art & Language implies, is the exploration of the relationship between the linguistic and visual and the questions involved in the interrelation and understanding of the one in terms of the other.