Between 1979 and 1989 BLOCK initiated and responded to key debates in visualand cultural studies publishing writings by artists art and design historiansand cul... » 

Between 1979 and 1989 BLOCK initiated and responded to key debates in visualand cultural studies publishing writings by artists art and design historiansand cultural theorists. The journals editors and contributors furthered thecritical tradition in art history responded to the work of contemporaryartists and brought the concerns of new cultural and critical theory to thestudy of art and design history. The BLOCK Reader in Visual Culture bringstogether classic writings by leading cultural theorists and artists firstpublished in this seminal journal and which are now unavailable providing aninvaluable resource for the teaching and study of art and design as well astheory and cultural studies.Contributors Jon Bird Barry Curtis Tamar Garb Philippa Goodall NicholasGreen Frank Hannah Dick Hebdige Lucy Lippard Frank Mort Kathy Myers FredOrton Claire Pajaczkowska Griselda Pollock Tim Putnam Oliver Richon MarthaRosler Lisa Tickner Necdet Teymur Judith Williamson. «