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Ian Burn and Mel Ramsden
Burn 1939-1993 Australia, Ramadan 1944 England
Six Negatives 1968/69
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[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Conceptual collaboration between Ian Burn, who was responsible for the text, and Mel Ramsden, who presents the ‘Six Negatives’
Mel Ramsden’s Six Negatives ‘dialogue’ with Ian Burn’s Holding system for Six Negatives (text)
14 pp, 28.0 x 21.5 cm. Unsigned and unnumbered.
Published by the artists.
Six Negatives (1968-69) is a product of Mel Ramsden ‘dialogue’ with Roget’s Thesaurus, which act with the six categories of the thesaurus creating a “positive” on the “negative” language.
Ian Burn’s contribution ‘Holding system for Six Negatives’ supplied Six Negatives with a more elaborate commentary, subsequently incorporated as part of the work.
p. 39 Stringer, John and Dalk, Michael 1992, ‘Ian Burn Minimal-Conceptual Work 1965-1970’, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth.
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