"Founded in 1968 in Coventry, the British group ART & LANGUAGE played an essential role in the birth of Conceptual Art, a trend which, from the late 1960s onwards, was to question the necessity of an object to materialize an artistic approach, and to propose a critical analysis of the conditions of existence of the artwork. ART & LANGUAGE, whose original activity consisted of writing articles on conceptual art, participated in numerous historic exhibitions of the movement; formed in England by Terry ATKINSON, David BAINBRIDGE, Michael BALDWIN, and Harold HURRELL, ART & LANGUAGE joined the "Society for Theoretical Art and Analyses" of Ian BURN and Mel RAMSDEN, who were living in New York. Joseph KOSUTH became its American editor in July 1969."
Alfred Pacquement and Catherine David