1964: A Year of Exhibitions

Abstract

Working with Stephen Bann, the journal has developed a new feature called “Animating the Archive,” which allows authors to annotate and contextualise curated selections of archival material. In his feature, 1964: A Year of Exhibitions, Stephen Bann reflects on the diverse sources of intellectual and artistic inspiration – exhibitions, literary journals, essay collections, collaborations, and travels abroad – that shaped his thinking as a young art critic in the early 1960s. Readers may navigate the material chronologically, or explore it in a non-linear fashion.

Keywords

• 1964
• exhibition studies
• archival resources
• digitisation
• swinging sixties
• art criticism
• art theory
• abstraction
• kinetic art
• documenta
• concrete poetry