This is the lead chapter in a book of essays entitled, 'DECADEnt - Public Art - Contentious Term and Contested Practice'. The other essays in the book are by Sam Ainsley, Stan Bonnar, Pavel Buchler, Chris Crickmay, Declan McGonagle and Craig Richardson. Linda James interviews Barbara Kendrick and Sarah Krepp and there is a manifesto statement by John Latham.
The book was published to mark ten years of the founding of the Environmental Art course at Glasgow School of Art and explores the issue of context in contemporary art and art education.
Foulis Press 1996. isbn 0 901904 36 8
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