Ian Burn's conceptualism.(includes commentary)(Transcript)

From: Art in America | Date: December 1, 1997 | Copyright information

Professor and conceptual artist Adrian Piper believes that conceptual art succeeded and that the career of Australian artist Ian Burns offers proof of that success. From the 1960s until his death in 1993, Burns was prolific in painting, writing, and social activism.

Following his early involvement with Conceptual art, Ian Burn turned to cultural work with the Australian labor movement and an engagement with questions of land and landscape.

Ian Burn was an Anglo-Australian ...

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