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Article: Black and white and red all over.(Art Monthly magazine over the years)(Editorial)
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- Art Monthly
- Article date:
- October 1, 2006
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In the 30 years since it was founded in 1976, Art Monthly has paradoxically both remained the same and yet changed utterly.
This approach has been quite deliberate, signalling continuity with the founding ethos of the magazine as stated by Peter Townsend in the first editorial: 'to provide informed coverage on contemporary art and the issues that surround it', to be affordable, flexible, accessible--and above all readable--while simultaneously responding to change, though not merely for its own sake. For instance, whereas it was feasible 30 years ago to focus primarily on 'contemporary British art and its national context', albeit in the dawning light of ...