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Barry Martin

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Barry Martin
Born (1943-02-20) 20 February 1943 (age 81)
NationalityBritish
EducationGoldsmith's College
St Martin's School of Art
MovementKinetic art

Barry Martin (born 1943)[1] is a British artist associated with the kinetic art movement of the 1960s, in which physical movement was incorporated into art. Martin has also explored ideas of movement in the activities of games: among artists whose work has explored chess, Martin has been described as "perhaps the most important".[2] His work appears in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum,[3] Tate,[4] and British Council,[5] among others. According to the Victoria and Albert Museum:

[Martin] has worked in various media - including kinetic sculpture, film, performance, and the making of environments - but the constant in his work has been drawing, either as a working tool, as a means of recording and observing, or as an end in itself. For Martin, drawing is a system of signs analogous to those of language, and also an intellectual process of enquiry, analysis and proposition.[6]

References

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  1. ^ "Barry Martin (b.1943) | Art UK". www.artuk.org.
  2. ^ Bryant, J. (2008). The Tomorrow of My Yesterday: The Complete Works of Barry Martin. Veenman Publishers. ISBN 9789086901159.
  3. ^ "Your Search Results | Search the Collections | Victoria and Albert Museum". collections.vam.ac.uk.
  4. ^ "Barry Martin born 1943 | Tate". Tate.
  5. ^ Council, British. "Barry Martin | Artists | Collection | British Council − Visual Arts". visualarts.britishcouncil.org.
  6. ^ Museum, Victoria and Albert. "Jigger Jagger | Martin, Barry | V&A Explore The Collections". Victoria and Albert Museum: Explore the Collections.