Stuart Brisley

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Stuart Brisley (born 1933) is a British artist.{{r|grove}}

Education

Brisley studied at Guildford School of Art from 1949 to 1954 and at the Royal College of Art from 1956 to 1959. In 1959–60 he attended the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich, Germany, and from 1960 to 1962 studied at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, in the United States.{{r|grove}}

Career

File:Arte Inglese Oggi, Milano, 1976.jpg in Milan, Italy. The performance was part of the 1976 exhibition Arte Inglese Oggi with over 50 British artists participating]]

In 1968 he took part in the occupation of Hornsey College of Art by staff and students, the "Hornsey sit-in".{{r|roddy}}

From the 1960s and to the early 1980s he was active as a performance artist; his works were inspired by Marxist political ideas, and frequently used extended duration as an aspect of the performance.{{r|grove}}{{r|roddy}} In the 1980s he turned to sculpture and installation art.{{r|grove}}

After a long academic career,{{r|roddy}} Brisley is a Professor Emeritus of the Slade School of Fine Art.{{r|gott}}

References

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[http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=&role=&nation=&subjectid=500025773 ID: 500025773: Brisley, Stuart (British sculptor, born 1933)]. Getty Research Institute: Union List of Artist Names online. Accessed April 2015.

Richard Gott (21 May 2010). [https://www.theguardian.com/stage/theatreblog/2010/may/21/new-labour-death-stuart-brisley Artist Stuart Brisley: shutting up shop on the old politics]. The Guardian. Accessed March 2015.

John Roberts (n.d.). [http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T011371 Brisley, Stuart]. Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. {{subscription required}}; also available as:

[http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/stuart-brisley-813 Stuart Brisley born 1933: Artist biography]. London: Tate.

Roddy Hunter, Judit Bodor (2012) [https://books.google.com/books?id=lSodBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA77 Art, Meeting and Encounter: The Art of Action in Great Britain]; in: Deirdre Heddon, Jennie Klein (eds.) (2012). Histories and practices of live art. Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan. {{ISBN|9780230229747}}.

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Stuart Brisley

Education

Career

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