Pages: International Magazine of the Arts - Briers, David (Berkhamsted HRS Graphics, 1970)
No. 2: Reflections on'Strategy: Get Arts' plus an anthology of reaction from the press / Richard Demarco -- Recent Czech activity: Milan Grygar, In memoriam Josef Honys, Jaroslav Malina, Jiri Valoch. Jindrich Prochazka -- Scores: John Furival, Cornelius Cardew, Tom Philips, Christopher Hobbs/Howard Skempton, Hugh Shrapnel, Michael Chant/John Tilbury -- Art In everyday life: Timm Ulrichs/Ian Breakwell, Robert Filliou, Alain Arias-Misson, Paul Berry, Amodulo-Art, Achille Bonito Oliva/Jean Claude Moineau/Nicolas Zurbrugg -- Information: Letters/Errata/Notes on contributors -- Towards the Death of Cocrete Poetry / Nicolas Zurbrugg -- Time magazine Art Page -- Centre spread tear-out supplement: Perforation of the Hole', a composition by Maurizio Kagel
'Pages' published concrete poetry and artists' writings and projects by contributors such as Dieter Roth, Emmett Williams, Tom Phillips, Jochen Gerz, Richard Hamilton and Robert Filliou.
Editor David Briers explained in issue 1: "The aim of Pages is to publicise the avant-garde, and by doing so to prove that it does not exist, except as a name. ... Pages will inform on the changing forms of art at the moment, most importantly those which are reproducible in as many copies as there exists a demand for them (one to millions), and whose price is directly related to the cost of their manufacture, and not only to the reputation of the artist. ... The specific intention of Pages is to inform, and not to worry about whether art is necessary, for as John Cage has pointed out, we should by now have disposed of the Germanic concept of doing only what is necessary."
Rare copies; no. 1 does not include the postcard by Richard Hamilton, no. 2 contains the centre spread tear-out supplement: 'Perforation of the Hole', a composition by Mauricio Kagel
Only three numbers of this magazine were published, between 1970-1972
Keywords: 20th Century (1901-2000); Fine art; Performance art; Avant-garde; Poetry; Music history; United Kingdom