JOHN A.

WALKER CURRICULUM VITAE

Date of Birth: 1938, Grimsby, Lincolnshire.

QUALIFICATIONS:

BA hons in Fine Art at Durham University 1961 (Art department, Kings College,

Newcastle-Upon-Tyne).

ALA (Associate of Library Association) Postgraduate qualification in Librarianship,

North Western Polytechnic School of Librarianship/Library Association, London,

1970.

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE:

Foundation course teaching Sunderland College of Art, 1961. Supply secondary

school teaching (Hackney, 1962); temporary work in factories, shops, offices and the

Post Office.

Executive Officer, Civil Service: National Assistance Board, 1962-66.

Assistant Librarian: Camden Public Libraries 1966-70; Hornsey College of Art

library 1970-73.
Freelance writer, artist, and art critic 1973-75.

Part-time art history lecturer at West Surrey College of Art 1975-81; and Middlesex

Polytechnic, 1975-81.

Associate lecturer at Middlesex 1981-92. Full-time senior lecturer at Middlesex Sept

1992, Reader in Art and Design History, 1993-99 (Retired in 1999, then a freelance

art critic and art historian. Resumed painting in 2005.)

ADDITIONAL TEACHING

Open University: modern art course, summer school teaching.

STUDIO SPECIALISATIONS:

Art theory, painting, photo-montage.

MEMBERSHIP OF MIDDLESEX UNIVERSTY’S INTERNAL COMMITTEES:

MA History of Design Board of Studies; Specialized Award Programme Board of

Studies; Sets, School, and Interfaculty assessment boards and Progression

Committees; School of History and Theory of Visual Culture management team, Set

and SAP leaders Meetings.

COURSE DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE:

Assisted in the planning of art & design history courses for art & design
undergraduates. Also developed modular scheme art-history modules on 'Realism'

and 'Art and mass media', ‘British Art and Design 1945-70',and 'Visual Culture

Studies'. MA history of Design, historiography unit.

RESEARCH:

Academic research of a historical and critical character concerning the subjects of

modern art, mass media and design. See publications list.

ATTENDANCE AT CONFERENCES:

Association of Art Historians annual conferences; Design History Society annual

conferences; conferences on Art Librarianship, Art Criticism, International

Television studies, Art & Television, Art Education, Art & Politics, Green Design,

Drawing (helped to organize this conference), Independent Group conference at the

ICA, 1989, Interactive Media conference ICA, April 1993; Paris Post-War

conference, Tate Gallery, 1993; Artist's Books exhibition/conference, Royal Festival

Hall, 1995. Design History Society Annual Conference, Royal College of Art &

Middlesex University, 1996.

COURSES ATTENDED:

Basic Design course at Goldsmiths College, 1966; Philosophy course at London

University (extra mural). Word processing at Redbridge Technical College.

SCHOLARSHIPS OBTAINED:

Hatton Scholarship, Durham University, 1960-61.

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIOIJAL BODIES:

Art Libraries Society 1969-75. Association of Art Historians 1977 - 2008.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

Univision Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1958; The Gallery, London, 1975;

Chameleon, Weybridge, Surrey, 2005. View Gallery, Thames Ditton, April-June

2006. The Pitt Studio and Gallery, Worcester, March 2007. Littleton Surgery, Esher,

2007-2009. Maison Deco, Esher 2009.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

Lincolnshire Art Association Annual exhibition 1956; Young Contemporaries 1958,

1959, 1960. London Group show 1965; Small Paintings exhibition, Wills Lane

Gallery, St Ives & Bulls Eye Gallery, Lichfield, 1972; 'Art & Society', Whitechapel

Art Gallery, 1976; Farnham Maltings Show, 1976; ‘Death Show’, Kettle’s Yard,

Cambridge, Dec 1987. 'Art below', (poster) London Underground, 2007. 'Life's a

beach', Artsite Gallery, Swindon, June 2007. 'Crossings', New Brewery Arts,

Cirencester, June-Aug 2009.

Exhibitions organised:
'Van Gogh in Provence' (Book & photo display) Camden Public Library, 1970;

'Rosa Luxemburg & Karl Liebknecht’, Pentonville Gallery, London, 1986.

PRIZES: Painting prize 1958 awarded by Tyne Tees Television. Judge Lawrence

Gowing.

COLLECTIONS

Works in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London and

Wolverhampton Art Gallery and various private collections.

DESIGN COMMISSIONS:

I have contributed to the design and layout of magazines, books, exhibition

catalogues and posters for which I have written or organized.

CONFERENCE PAPERS:

Paper on Art Librarianship, Wales, 1970; on Art criticism, AIR gallery, London

1976; on art periodicals Art Libraries Society annual conference 1976; on Van Gogh

painting at Association of Art Historians' annual conference, Norwich, 1980; on a

Van Gogh drawing at a conference on drawing held at Middlesex Polytechnic 1982;

NAFTHE art section conference, held ICA, London; Paper on art publishing given

at a conference on this theme at the Victoria & Albert Museum, 13 May 1989.
CONSULTANCIES:

Advice given to BBC 2 TV, arts series 'Relative Values' and to The Late Show; to

Camden Art Centre for the exhibition 'Interaction'; to Pluto Press and Manchester

University Press, Calman & King, re. new book proposals. University of

Westminster, re. MA design management course units on Design and Society, 1996;

BBC Radio Scotland - re. radio programme on rock musicians who went to art

school, 1997. Advice given to Robert Preece of Rotterdam re art and celebrity and

his website Art, Design, Café.

BROADCASTS:

Tyne Tees Television 1958; Radio London, 1983. BBC World Service 1989;

Interviewed on camera for Catalyst series, programme about Huw Wheldon, BBC

TV Wales. 1997. Radio Australia, 1999. Filmed and interviewed for Timeshift series:

Art School: The Influence of British Art Schools, transmitted on BBC 4, 19/06/2004.

Interview for 'The Book Show' ABC Radio National Australia about my Latham

book, March 2006.

EXTERNAL EXAMINING:

Newcastle Polytechnic, MA fine art course, mid 1980s.

OTHER ACTIVITIES:

One of the founder editors of 'Block' magazine 1979. Involvement in art education
campaign group AD 2000 and (in the mid 1970s) an art group called Into or the St

Martins Group, involvement also with AND Association, London in the 1980s and

1990s.

Guest lectures given at: the Slade, Chelsea School of Art, Camden Arts Centre, the

V & A, the Royal College of Art, Camberwell School of Art, East Ham, Harrow,

Central-St Martins School of Art; Tate Gallery London; Eastbourne Art Centre;

Nottingham Art Centre; West Surrey College of Art, University of East Anglia;

Falmouth School of Art; ICA, London; Leicester Polytechnic; Newcastle

Polytechnic, Lanchester Polytechnic, Cardiff College of Art, Polytechnic of the

South West, Cambridge University, Winchester College of Art; Oxford University -

American students summer school; Canterbury College of Art; Museum of the

Moving Image; Trent Polytechnic; Lina Garnade Foundation course, London; Ideas

in Progress series, Middlesex University; Wimbledon School of Art. Tate Britain

26/06/2003 appeared on a panel discussing ‘Art & Celebrity’ organised by

Wimbledon School of Art.

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

A Glossary of Art, Architecture and Design since 1945 (London: Library Association,

3rd edn 1992).

Art since Pop (London: Thames & Hudson, 1975).

Van Gogh Studies: Five Critical Essays (London: JAW Publications, 1981).

Art in the Age of Mass Media (London: Pluto Press, 1983/London & Sterling, VA:

Pluto Press, 2nd edn 1994; 3rd edn 2001).

Crossovers: Art into Pop, Pop into Art (London: Comedia/Methuen, 1987).

Design History and the History of Design (London: Pluto Press, 1989).

Art and Artists on Screen (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993).

Arts TV: A History of Arts Television in Britain (London: Arts Council & John

Libbey, 1993).

John Latham – the Incidental Person – his Art and Ideas (London: Middlesex

University Press, 1995).

(with Sarah Chaplin) Visual Culture: An Introduction (Manchester & New York:

Manchester University Press, 1997).

Cultural Offensive: America’s Impact on British Art since 1945 (London & Sterling

VA: Pluto Press, 1998).

Art and Outrage: Provocation, Controversy and the Visual Arts (London & Sterling

VA: Pluto Press, 1999).

(With Rita Hatton) Supercollector: A Critique of Charles Saatchi (London: …

ellipsis, 2000).

A Few 'Semiotic' Paintings of 1975, Unknown and Destroyed, (London: Institute of

Artology, 2002).

Left Shift: Radical Art in 1970s Britain, (London & New York: I.B. Tauris, 2002).

Art and Celebrity, (London & Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 2003).

(With Rita Hatton) Supercollector: A Critique of Charles Saatchi (London: Institute

of Artology, 2nd edn, 2003).

Learning to Paint: A British Art School and Art Student 1956-61, (London: Institute

of Artology, 2003).

FIREFIGHTERS IN ART AND MEDIA: A PICTORIAL HISTORY, (London:

Francis Boutle Publishers, published April 2005).

(With Rita Hatton) Supercollector: A Critique of Charles Saatchi (London: Institute

of Artology, 3rd edn, 2005).

WORK: Ford Madox Brown’s Painting and Victorian Life, (London: Francis Boutle

Publishers, 2006).

Rita Hatton interviews John A. Walker, Oranges are the Only Fruit: New Paintings

by John A. Walker (London: Institute of Artology, 2006), 24 page illustrated booklet.

EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

Five collages by John Stezaker, (Birmingham: Ikon Gallery, 1978).

Rosa Luxemburg & Karl Liebknecht: Revolution, Remembrance, Representation,

(London: Pentonville Gallery, 1986).

Bette Spektorov: Paintings 1970-89; towards a re-definition of the decorative in art,

(London: Ben Uri Society Gallery, 1989).

PERIODICAL ARTICLES (in date of publication order).

1970 --------------

'A new general classification scheme: prospects and problems in relation to art
libraries', ARLIS Newsletter, (6) Dec 1970, pp. 8-12.

1971 --------------

‘LOMA: its creator interviewed by John Walker', ARLIS Newsletter, (9) Oct 1971,

pp. 5-10.

1972 -------------

‘Art labels', ARLIS Newsletter, (11) July 1972, pp. 13-6.

'Education for art librarianship', ARLIS Newsletter, (12) Sept 1972, pp. 21-3.

'Video/Vertical Hold/Art libraries', ARLIS Newsletter, (13) Dec 1972, p. 22.

1973 --------------

'John Stezaker and Art-Language', Studio International, 186 (961) Dec 1973, p. 248.

1974 ---------------

'Drug Abuse in Maine; Angela Bozzola’, Studio International, 187 (965) April 1974,

review section pp. 12-13.

'Joseph Beuys', Studio International, 187 (967) June 1974, pp. 10-11.

'Contemporary art', Flash Art, (48-9) Oct-Nov 1974, p 37.

1975 -----------------

‘John Stezaker', Studio International, 190 (976) July-Aug 1975, pp. 80-81.

'Interview between Steve Willats & John A. Walker', Studio International, 190 (977)

Sept-Oct 1975, p. 151.

'Mario Merz’, Studio International, 190 (978) Nov-Dec 1975, p. 245.

'Diagrams: their relevance to art', Control Magazine, (9) Dec 1975, pp. 18-20.

1976 ----------------

'John Hoyland & Bob Law', Studio International, 191 (979) Jan-Feb 1976, pp. 79-81.

'Periodicals since 1945' -in- The Art Press: two centuries of art magazines, (eds) T.

Fawcett & C. Phillpot (London: Art Book Co, 1976), pp. 45-53.

‘APG: the individual & the organization, a decade of conceptual engineering',

Studio International, 191 (980) March-April 1976, pp. 162-64.

'The Van Gogh industry', Art & Artists, 11 (5) August 1976, pp. 4-7.
'Internal memorandum', Studio International, 192 (983) Sept-Oct 1976, pp. 113-18;

plus book review of Harold Rosenberg's Art on the Edge, pp. 226-27.

1977 ------------------

'Sound recordings, video and film' -in- Art Library Manual: a guide to resources and

practice, (ed) P. Pacey, (New York: Bowker, 1977), pp. 256-66.

‘Comments on Umberto Eco’s book A Theory of Semiotics’, Leonardo, 10 1977, pp.

317-19.

1978 ---------------

‘Art & anarchism', Art & Artists, 13 (1) May 1978, pp. 16-9.

‘Reflections on a photograph by Margaret Bourke-White’, Creative Camera, (167)

May 1978, pp. 148-49.

1979-----------------

'Art & the peasantry 1', Art & Artists, 13 (9) Jan 1979, pp. 26-35.

'Art & the peasantry 2’, Art & Artists, 13 (10) Feb 1979, pp 14-17.

'Art & the peasantry 3’, Art & Artists, 13 (11) March 1979, pp. 24-29.
'All that glitters ...’, Camerawork, (15) Sept 1979, pp. 4-5.

'Teaching art history: the nitty gritty', Block, (1) 1979, pp. 2-4.

'Van Gogh as a peasant painter', Artery, (17) Dec 1979, pp. 14-25.

'Criticism of art, or criticism for art?' -in- Art and Criticism 1976, (ed) B. Taylor,

(Winchester School of Art Press, 1979), pp. 42-48.

'The London Underground Diagram', Icographic, (14-15) 1979, pp. 2-4.

1980 -------------------

'Post-Impressionism', Marxism Today, 24 (3) March 1980, pp. 19-21.

'Art history versus philosophy: the enigma of the "Old Shoes"', Block, (2) Spring

1980, pp. 14-23.

'Context as a determinant of photographic meaning', Camerawork, (19) Aug 1980,

pp. 5-6.

'Art & Psychoanalysis by Peter Fuller’ (book review), Aspects, (13) Winter 1980-81,

pp. 12-13.
1981 -------------------

'The basic faults of the basic design courses', Art Monthly, (46) 1981, pp. 27-28.

1982 ----------------

'Julian Schnabel at the Tate’, Aspects, (20) Autumn 1982, pp. 4-5.

'Van Gogh's drawing of La Crau from Mont Majour’, Master Drawings, 20 (4)

Winter 1982, pp. 380-85, plus plate 18.

1983 --------------

'Dream-work and art-work', Leonardo, 16 (2) 1983, pp. 109-14.

'David Salle's exemplary perversity', Tension, (1) July-Aug 1983, pp. 38-39.

'"Images for sale" at the V & A', Studio International, 196 (1001) Aug 1983, pp. 38-

39.

'The value of a general model of the production, distribution and consumption of

artistic signs for the discipline of art history', Block, (9) 1983, pp. 73-76.

'Larger than life: representing Pop music stars', Studio International, 196 (1003)

1983, pp. 16-21.

1984 -------------------

'Carnival and contradiction', Performance Magazine, (28) Feb-March 1984, pp. 32-

34.

‘Pop music: the art school connection', Theatrephile, 1 (2) March 1984, pp. 69-72.

'The Victorian gospel of work', Artery, 8 (1-2) May 1984, pp. 17-19.

‘The Romance of Commerce and Culture’ (book review), Design Research Newsletter,

(19) May 1984, pp. 14-15.

'Art in the age of mass media' (John A. Walker interviewed by Clive Boutle),

Aspects, (27) Summer 1984, p. 13.

'Snap, razzle, pop', British Journal of Photography, Sept 14 1984, p. 979.

'They all live in yellow hi-tech shed', Building Design, Oct 5 1984, pp. 18-20.

'Has Modernism Failed? by Suzi Gablik’ (Book review), Aspects, (28) Autumn 1984.

1985----------------------

‘Creative Computing Graphics by A. Jankel & R. Morton’ (book review), City Limits,
Jan 25-31, 1985.

'Liberalism with its pants down’ (book review of Peter Webb & others The Erotic

Arts), AND, (5) 1985, pp. 9-11.

‘Art for the rich?’ AND (6) 1985, p. 16.

'Pop music & the video revolution', Studio International, 198 (1008) March 1985, pp.

28-33.

'McLaren and the sources of punk', Variant, Summer 1985, pp. 12-15.

'Unholy alliance: Chairman Mao, Andy Warhol & the Saatchis', Real Life, (15)

Winter 1985-86, pp. 15-19.

1986------------------------------

'Art Telecommunication' (book review), Leonardo, 18 (2) Feb 1986, pp. 28-30.

‘Art & Design 2000: action on cuts’, Art Monthly, (93) February 1986, pp. 28-30.

'A dark art for a dark time?' Aspects, (32) Spring 1986, pp. 11-12.

'Total Kultur: Nazi art and media', AND, (9) 1986, pp. 3-11.
'Tomorrow’s artists: how should they be educated?' Circa, (29) July-Aug 1986, pp.

35-37.

‘Through our own Eyes: Popular Art and Modern Memory by Guy Brett’, (book

review), City Limits, Nov 20-27 1986, p. 92.

'Art & Unemployment', AND, (10) 1986, p. 26.

1987---------------------

'Artworks as commodity', Circa, (32) Jan-Feb 1987, pp. 26-30.

'Reconstructing television: Scratch video', Studio International, 200 (1016) 1987, pp.

42-47.

'Warhol’s worth', AND, (11-12) 1987, pp. 23-25.

‘Modish vivendi: (book review) Pop Design: Modernism to Mod, by N. Whiteley’,

City Limits, July 23-30, 1987, p. 94.

'John Latham & the book', Burlington Magazine, CXXIX (1016) Nov 1987, pp. 715-

20.
'John Latham: books for burning’, Studio International, 200 (1018) 1987, pp. 26-29.

'Architect as superman', Real Life, (17-18) Winter 1987-88, pp. 34-39.

1988--------------------------------

'A short history of The Gallery', AND, (15-16) 1988, pp. 47-49.

'Living in borrowed time', Times Higher Educational Supplement, Feb 26 1988, p. 13.

'Videomania’, Studio International, 201 (1019) 1988, pp. 54-55.

'Dial 0 for art', Times Higher Educational Supplement, (830) Sept 30 1988, p. 16.

'Design History, (ed) Hazel Conway' (book review), Journal of the History of Design,

1 (1) 1988, pp. 79-80.

'John Latham’s new glass and book sculptures', Art Monthly, (121) Nov 1988, pp.

14-16.

'Clark’s "Civilisation" in retrospect', Art Monthly, (122) Dec-Jan 1988-89, pp. 16-19.

1989 ---------------

'”The Rebel”: a comic portrayal of the avant-garde artist', AND, (18-19) 1989, pp.
41-44.

'Aesthetics of the billfold', Times Higher Educational Supplement, March 17 1989, p.

16.

'Vincent' (review of film by Paul Cox), Alba, (11) spring 1989, pp. 50-53.

'Moonstruck: John Stezaker', Art Monthly, (126) May 1989, pp. 17-18.

'Room with a view' (Book review of Eccentric Spaces by Robert Harbison), Building

Design, (941) June 16 1989, p. 39.

'Copy this!' Times Higher Educational Supplement, July 7 1989, p. 16. (reprinted in

2006).

'The Factory master' (Warhol), New Statesman & Society, 2 (66) Sept 8 1989, pp. 38-

39.

'Public art is good for you' (book review of Malcolm Miles & others, Art for Public

Places), Art Monthly, (130) Oct 1989, pp. 29-30.

'Art, Kitsch and sponsors', New Statesman & Society, 2 (81) December 1989, pp. 49-

50.
'Reviews: Tucker, the man and his dream', Journal of Design History, 2 (4) 1989, pp.

299-302.

1990---------------------

'Fathers of Pop', Blueprint, (64) February 1990, pp. 24-26.

'Two recent feature films on art', Art Monthly, (134) March 1990, pp. 30-31.

'Yoko Ono’s bronze period', Art Monthly, (136) May 1990, p. 16.

'A world made green by design', Times Higher Educational Supplement, (917) June 1 1990, p. 16.

‘Of cypresses and sunflowers’, Monthly Film Bulletin, 57 (678) July 1990, pp. 184-85.

'The Van Gogh Interview', AND, (22) 1990, pp. 36-37.

'Stuart Sutcliffe: a myth in the making', AND, (22) 1990, pp. 38-39.

'Midnight Angel', (review of arts film on TV), AND, (22) 1990, pp. 40-41.

1991 --------------------

'Small screen, school room’, Independent Media, (108) 1991, p. 5.

'Interactive video: the museum without objects', Bulletin of the Association of Art Historians, (42)

August 1991, pp. 3-4.

'Books: pop up and see me sometime' (book review), Art Monthly, (150) October 1991, p. 28.

'Pop Art: differential responses and changing perceptions', AND, (26) 1991, pp. 9-16.

1992 --------------------------

'Kitaj’s memorial to a socialist martyr', Studies in Iconography, Vol 13, 1989-90, pp. 258-62.

(Published January 1992).

'Ways of Seeing: twenty years on', Art Monthly, (154) March 1992, pp. 3-6.

‘Pop art: differential responses and changing perceptions’, Over Here: Reviews in American Studies,

11 (2) winter 1991, pp. 49-63.

'Mrs Koons: the real artist?' Art Monthly, (155) April 1992, pp. 3-5.

'The last avant-gardist: John Latham's holistic vision’, Performance Magazine, (65-66) spring 1992,

pp. 28-33.

'Hamilton's influence', Art Monthly, (159) Sept 1992, p. 7.

'Arts TV in the 199Os: the return of Pop Posh?' AND, (27) 1992, p. 1.

1993 -------------------

'Pioneers of the incoherent' (book review of C. Poggi, In Defiance of Painting), Times Higher

Educational Supplement, (1069), 30 April 1993, p. 27.

'Display not to indicate Conceptual Art' (letter), Art Monthly, (166) May 1993, pp. 31-32.
'Fleeting impression of the modern' (book review: C. Harrison and P. Wood, eds, Art in Theory),

Times Higher Educational Supplement, (1070), May 7 1993, p. 27.

1994-----------------

'Theses on Realism in Art’, Notebooks, (1) 1994, pp. 102-09. (New Middlesex University journal,

published March 1994.)

'Books: Audio Arts' (book review), Art Monthly, (182) December-January 1994-95, p. 42.

1995-------------------

'Consumed by fire: the life, death and resurrection of John Latham’s "Skoob Box"', Art Monthly,

(185) April 1995, pp. 3-5.

(Letter) Art Monthly, (187) June 1995.

'The value of a general model of the production ...’, -in- Introduction to Art: A Reader, (ed) Charlotte

Herzog (William Rainey Harper College/Simon and Shuster Custom Publishing, 1995).

'Message from the Margin' (Gustav Metzger), Art Monthly, (190) October 1995, pp. 14-17.

'Books: Marxism Today' (Review of Gen Doy's Seeing and Consciousness), Art Monthly, (190)

October 1995, p. 40.

1996 -----------------------

'Books: The Usual Suspects' (Reviews of Brandon Taylor's The Art of Today, Edward Lucie-Smith's

Artoday and Anne Massey's The Independent Group), Art Monthly, (193) February 1996, pp. 43-45.
'Books: Crossing Boundaries', (Reviews of M. Bogart's Artists, Advertising and the Borders of Art and

W. Steiner's The Scandal of Pleasure: Art in the Age of Fundamentalism), Art Monthly, (196) May

1996, pp. 45-46.

'Comment: Press Humbug: The Jamie Wagg Affair', 20/20 Magazine, (4) Spring 1996, pp. 28-29.

'Marshall McLuhan' and 'Charles Saatchi’, entries in The Dictionary of Art, 34 Vols, ed. Jane Turner,

(London: Macmillan, 1996).

1997 ----------------------

'Context as a Determinant of Photographic Meaning', -in- The Camerawork Essays: Context and

Meaning in Photography, ed. Jessica Evans (London: Rivers Oram Press, 1997), pp. 52-63.

‘Being naked…’ (review of four books on Peter Greenaway), The Art Book, 4 (4) Sept 1997, pp. 25-26.

‘Everything equals nothing: the art and ideas of John Latham’, Pictura Britannica: Art from Britain,

by B. Murphy & others, (Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1997), pp. 100-06.

1998------------------------

‘Visual culture and visual culture studies’, The Art Book, 5 (1) Jan 1998, pp. 14-16.

‘Marcus Harvey’s “sick, disgusting” painting of Myra Hindley: a semiotic analysis’, tate, the art

magazine, (14) Spring 1998, pp. 56-57.

‘Journal by Kate Paul (book review)’, Art Monthly, (213) Feb 1998, p. 34.

‘Artwords… by Thomas Patin & Jennifer McLerran’ (book review), Art Libraries Journal, 23 (1)

1998, pp. 46-47.

‘British TV arts coverage in the nineties’, -in- Picture This: Media Representations of Visual Art &

Artists, ed. P. Hayward (London & Luton: Arts Council of England/University of Luton, 2nd rev edn

1998), pp. 87-99.

1999----------------------

‘Chagall by G. Polansky’ (book review), The Art Book, 6 (1) January 1999, pp. 26-27.

(with Rita Hatton), ‘The new neurotic capitalism’, Art Monthly Australia, (119) May 1999, pp. 16-19.

‘Television: This is Modern Art’ (review of TV arts series by M. Collings), tate, the art magazine, (19)

winter 1999, pp. 73-75.

---------------------------------2000------------------

‘Chile Vencera’, Art Monthly, No. 235, (April 2000), pp. 46-47.

‘Social Taboo to Mobile art form’ (Book review of Written on the Body ed. Jane Caplan), Times

Higher, (16 June 2000), p. 27.

‘In the face of Death’ (Book review of Looking back at Francis Bacon by David Sylvester), Times

Literary Supplement, No 5077 (21 July 2000), p. 20.

‘Conceptual art …’, (Two book reviews), The Art Book, Vol. 7, No. 4 (September 2000), pp. 34-35.

‘Art and entertainment’ (letter), Art Monthly, (240) October 2000, p. 10.

‘Modern art: from spectator to participant’ (two book reviews), The Art Newspaper, (107) October

2000, p. 57.
‘Seaside memories’, Lincolnshire Life, October 2000, p. 10.

‘Get Ahead, get a demon bump’, (book review of Body Modification), Times Higher Website, 3

November, 2000.

‘Deal makers, art breakers’, (review of book Eyewitness by Jed Perl), Times Literary Supplement,

(5095), 24 November 2000, p. 21.

‘To buy or not to buy …’, David Cleator-Roberts and John A. Walker’, Art Review, Vol LII

(December/January, 2000/2001), pp. 46-7.

----------------2001-----------------------------------------------------

‘Keeping up appearances’ (Interview with Alison Jackson), Art Review, February 2001, pp. 36-39.

‘Art is a battlefield’, (on Barbara Kruger), Art Review, February 2001, pp. 40-41. Also on the web via

Art Review’s website.

‘Visual Digital Culture’ (Book review), The Art Book, 8 (2) March 2001, pp. 51.

‘Politics & Aesthetics in the Arts’ (book review), The Art Book, 8 (2) March 2001, p. 54.

‘Branded? and Brands’, (Book review) The Art Book, 8 (3) June 2001, pp. 24-25.

‘Critical Kitaj’, (Book review) The Art Book, 8 (3) June 2001, pp. 60-61.

‘The Continental Aesthetics Reader’, (Book review) The Art Book, 8 (3) June 2001, pp. 62-63.
‘Radical artists and art students versus management & bureaucracy in the 1970s’, International

Journal of Art & Design Education, 20 (2) 2001, pp. 230-37.

‘Art & Technology in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries', (Book review) The Art Book, 8 (4)

September 2001, p. 62.

‘Reading California: Art, Image and Identity 1900-2000’, (Book review) The Art Book, 8 (4)

September 2001, pp. 60-61.

‘Guggenheim Museum Collection A - Z’, (Book review) The Art Book, 8 (4) September 2001, p. 59.

‘Will Wills join the art class struggle’, Times Higher, 21 Sept 2001, p. 20.

‘A Vexed trans-Atlantic relationship: Greenberg and the British’, Art Criticism, Vol. 16, No. 1 (2001),

pp. 44-61.

-----------------------2002----------------------------------------------

‘Art works …’, (book review), The Art Book, Vol 9 No 1, January 2002, pp. 16-17.

‘Minimalism …’, (three book reviews), The Art Book, Vol 9 No 1, January 2002, pp. 33-34.

‘Andy Warhol …’, (two book reviews), The Art Book, Vol 9 No 1, January 2002, pp. 52-53.

‘Nose book …’, (book review), The Art Book, Vol 9 No 1, January 2002, pp. 60-61.

‘Excerpts from the book Supercollector by Rita Hatton and John A. Walker + Part II: Update
October 2000 by John A. Walker’, Smart Collector, Vol. 1 Spring 2001 (published Feb 2002), pp. 24-7.

‘Duane Hanson’, (book review), The Art Book, Vol 9 No 2, March 2002, p. 31.

‘Displaying the Marvelous & Clean new world’, (2 book reviews), The Art Book, Vol 9 No 2, March

2002, pp. 45-46.

‘Graphic design’, (book review), The Art Book, Vol 9 No 2, March 2002, p. 54 .

‘Posing’, (book review), The Art Book, Vol 9 No 2, March 2002, p. 52.

‘Guerilla performance’, (book review), The Art Book, Vol 9 No 2, March 2002, pp. 62-63.

‘Peter Hill: True Lies and Superfictions’, 2002 Biennale of Sydney (The World May Be Fantastic),

catalogue, ed. Ewen McDonald, (Sydney: Biennale of Sydney Ltd, 2002), pp. 98-99.

‘The Tastemakers’ & ‘Art Crazy Nation’, (two book reviews), The Art Book, Vol 9 No 3, June 2002,

pp. 30-31.

‘Warhol – human or anti-human?’ (two book reviews), The Art Book, Vol 9 No 4, Sept 2002, pp. 3-6.

‘Tilson: pop to present’ (catalogue review), The Art Book, Vol 9 No 4, Sept 2002, pp. 19-20.

‘Van Gogh’s flowers…' (three book reviews), The Art Book, Vol 9 No 4, Sept 2002, pp. 39-41.

‘Louis Faurer’ (book review), The Art Book, Vol 9 No 4, Sept 2002, pp. 48-49.

‘The lives of images’ (Book review), The Art Book, Vol 9 No 4, Sept 2002, pp. 56-7.
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‘Views of the Fifties’, (two book reviews), The Art Book, Vol 10 No 1, January 2003, pp. 10-12.

‘Women who ruled…’ (book review), The Art Book, Vol 10 No 1, January 2003, pp. 23-24.

‘Installations, Mattress factory’, (book review), The Art Book, Vol 10 No 1, January 2003, p. 45.

‘Sidney Nolan’, (book review), The Art Book, Vol 10 No 1, January 2003, pp. 50-51.

‘Whitney Biennial … Ctrl Space’ (two book reviews), The Art Book, Vol 10, No 2, March 2003, pp. 31-

32.

‘Transgressions … Artists on the Left’, (two book reviews), The Art Book, Vol 10 No 3, June 2003, pp.

27-28.

‘Plots and patterns in art history’ (book review), The Art Book, Vol 10 No 4, September 2003, pp. 10-

11.

‘American realism’ (book review), The Art Book, Vol 10 No 4, September 2003, pp. 47-48.

‘Couture culture’ (book review), The Art Book, Vol 10 No 4, September 2003, p. 56.

‘Arts management’ (book review), The Art Book, Vol 10 No 4, September 2003, p. 63.

‘Picture postcards and the erotic appeal of firefighters’, Picture Postcard Monthly, (296) December

2003, pp. 18-20.

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‘Vincent’s Choice’ (Book review), The Art Book, Vol 11 No 1, January 2004, pp. 26-27.

‘Public Sculpture of the City of London’, (Book review), The Art Book, Vol 11 No 1, January 2004,

pp. 61-62.

‘Richard Cork: Advocate of New Art’ (book review), The Art Book, Vol 11 No 2, March 2004, pp. 9-

11.

‘An artist against the Third Reich … Alternative Art New York’ (two book reviews), The Art Book,

Vol 11 No 2 March 2004, pp. 35-37.

‘Ashley Havinden’ (book review), The Art Book, Vol 11 No 3, June 2004, p. 20.

‘Up close and personal,’ (book review), The Art Book, Vol 11 No 3, June 2004, p. 37.

‘Sir Winston Churchill’s Life through his paintings’, (book review) The Art Book, Vol 11, No 4,

September, 2004, p. 59.’

‘The People’s Hero: Millais’s The Rescue and the image of the fireman in nineteenth-century art and

media,’ Apollo, December 2004, pp. 56-62. (Also reproduced on the web: www.findarticles.com)

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‘Rolf Harris, celebrity artist,’ Jamini: An International Arts Quarterly, February 2005, pp. 76-83.

‘Art versus nonart: art out of mind,’ Tsion Avital, (book review) The Art Book, Vol 12, No 2, May
2005, pp. 25-26.

‘The infinite line: re-making art after modernism,’ Briony Fer, (book review) The Art Book, Vol 12,

No 2, May, 2005, pp. 32-33.

‘Representations of G. F. Watts: art making in Victorian culture,’ Colin Trodd & Stephanie Brown

(eds) (book review) The Art Book, Vol 12, No 2, May 2005, pp. 40-41.

‘Daumier,’ Sarah Symmons, (book review) The Art Book, Vol 12, No 2, May 2005, pp. 57-58.

'The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible', (Ranciere), (book review), The Art Book,

Vol 12, No 3, August 2005, pp. 36-37.

'Art, Money, Parties: New Institutions in the Political Economy of Contemporary Art,' (Jonathan

Harris ed.) (book review), The Art Book, Vol 12, No 3, August 2005, pp. 48-50.

'I, Goya', (Dagmar Feghelm), (book review), The Art Book, Vol 12, No 3, August 2005, pp. 60-61.

'Derek Boshier's drawings from America', Jamini: An International Arts Quarterly, Vol 2, No 4, 2005,

pp. 80-85.

'Toulouse-Lautrec and Monmartre.' (book review), The Art Book, Vol 12, No 4, November 2005, p. 23.

'Video Art: A Guided Tour' (book review), The Art Book, Vol 12, No 4, November 2005, p. 43.

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'Van Gogh Drawings' (book review), The Art Book, Vol 13, No 1, February 2006, pp. 25-26.
'At at a distance' (book review), The Art Book, Vol 13, No 1, February 2006, pp. 53-54.

'Perils of Publishing,' Artnet.com/magazine/books/walker, February 2006, 3 pages.

'Recollection: John Latham, The perils of publishing a book about an artist who destroyed books,'

Art Monthly, No 294, March 2006, p. 39.

'Copy This! A historical perspective on the use of the photocopier in art,' Plagiary: Cross Disciplinary

Studies in Plagiarism, Fabrication and Falsification, online journal, Vol 1 No 3 pp. 1-3, 2006.

(Reprint of article first published in 1989.)

'The lure of glittering art prizes,' Jamini, Vol 3, No 1, March 2006, pp. 90-95.

'A few "semiotic" paintings of 1975, unknown and destroyed,' Pro Forma: Language/Text/Visual Art,

Vol I, ed Jessica Wyman, (Toronto, ON: YYZ Books, 2006) pp. 18-29. (Reprint of my publication A

Few 'Semiotic' Paintings of 1975, Unknown and Destroyed, (London: Institute of Artology, 2002).)

'International Art galleries ...' (Book review), The Art Book, Vol 13, No. 2, May 2006, pp. 38-39.

'Modigliani, myth and cinema' (Film review) Jamini, Vol 3, No 2, June 2006, pp. 100-103.

'The Downtown Book' (book review), The Art Book, Vol 13, No. 3, August 2006, pp. 27-29.

'Duchamp in Context' (book review), The Art Book, Vol 13, No. 3, August 2006, pp. 39-40.

'Frank Stella 1958' (book review), The Art Book, Vol 13, No 4, November 2006, pp. 46-47.

'John A. Walker/Fine Art/ 1956-61' (memoir of artschool days), -in- Newcastle University, Newcastle

University: Past, Present and Future, (Newcastle-upon-Tyne & London: Newcastle University &
Third Millenium Publishing Ltfd., 2006), p. 78.

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'Negating the image: case studies in Iconoclasm' (book review), The Art Book, Vol 14, No 1, February

2007, pp. 46-47.

'Art and film: a survey of the literature', The Art Book, Vol 14, No 1, February 2007, pp. 67-69.

'Bohemian rogue' (book review), The Art Book. Vol 14, No 1, February 2007, pp. 72-73.

'New Art from London' (book review), The Art Book. Vol 14, No 2, May 2007, pp. 36-37.

'Conrad Atkinson Landescapes' (book review), The Art Book. Vol 14, No 2, May 2007, pp. 43-44.

'Tracey Emin' (book review), , The Art Book. Vol 14, No 2, May 2007, pp. 49-50.

'Art Czar: The rise and fall of Clement Greenberg' (book review), The Art Book. Vol 14, No 2, May

2007, pp. 50-52.

'Unholy alliance: Chairman Mao, Andy Warhol & the Saatchis', Real Life, (15) winter 1985-86, pp.

15-19. Reprinted in Real Life Magazine: Selected Writings and Projects 1979-1994, edited by Miriam

Katzeff, Thomas Lawson & Susan Morgan, (New York: Primary Information, 2006) published in

2007, pp. 231- 235.

'Vincent van Gogh and Expressionism' (book review), The Art Book. Vol 14, No 3, August 2007, pp.

26-27.

'Francis Bacon' (2 book reviews), The Art Book. Vol 14, No 3, August 2007, pp. 40-42.
'Art and Obscenity' (book review), The Art Book, Vol 14, No 4, November 2007), p. 52.

(Extracts from my book Crossovers), Sound and Vision, ed Luca Beatrice, (Bologna: Damiani, 2007),

pp. 22-24.

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'The spray gun and the cosmos: John Latham's spray-gun paintings of the 1950s'. (Catalogue essay)

(London: Delaye/Saltoun, Feb 2008), pp. 7-29. Plus chronology, pp. 36-37.

'Can art be evil? Portrait of a Nazi Propagandist'. (book review), The Art Book, Vol 15, no 1,

February 2008, pp. 5-6.

'Panic attack! Art in the punk years', (book review), The Art Book, Vol 15, no 1, February 2008, pp.

14-15.

'Dali and film'. (book review), The Art Book, Vol 15, no 1, February 2008, pp. 71-72.

'Vincent van Gogh and Expressionism', (book review), The Art Book. Vol 15, no 2, May 2008, pp 19-

20.

'The symbolism of Paul Gauguin', (book review), The Art Book, Vol 15, no 2, May 2008, pp 50-51.

'Norman Rockwell', (book review), The Art Book, Vol 15, no 2, May 2008, pp 54-55.

'Derrick Greaves', (book Review), The Art Book, Vol 15, no 2, May 2008, p. 59.

'Hornsey 1968: The Art School Revolution', (Book review), The Art Book, Vol 15 No 3, August 2008,

pp. 33-34.
'Pop Art and the Contest over American Culture' (book review), The Art Book, Vol 15 No 3, August

2008, p. 38.

'Vision On: Film, Television and the Arts in Britain', (book review), The Art Book, Vol 15 No 3, August

2008, pp. 74-75.

'Groys, Art Power' (book review), The Art Book, vol 15, no 4, November 2008, p. 46.

2009-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

'Lee Bontecou: A Retrospective', (book review), The Art Book, Vol, 16, no, 1, February 2009, pp. 30-

31.

'The Great Bratby' (Book review), The Art Book, Vol 16, no 2, May 2009, pp. 23-24.

'Lichtenstein: Girls', (Book review), The Art Book, Vol 16, no 2, May 2009, pp. 42-43.

'Stuart Sutcliffe', (book review) The Art Book, Vol 16, no 3, August 2009, pp. 35-36.

'Van Gogh and the colours of the night' [book review] The Art Book, Vol 16, no 4, November 2009,

pp. 27-28.

'James Rosenquist' [book review], The Art Book, Vol 16, no 4, November 2009, pp. 38-39.