Biting the Hand: Traces of Resistance in the Art & Language diaspora by Paul Wood (ed.)
Ladna and Turist (WIP) in use for Biting the Hand: Traces of Resistance in the Art & Language diaspora, published by Rab-Rab Press. Graphic design and typesetting by Ott Kagovere and Mark Foss.
Edited, compiled and introduced by Paul Wood, Biting the Hand: Traces of Resistance in the Art & Language diaspora is about a dissident formation of artists active in the UK in the 1970s and 80s.
The book tells the story of artists engaging with a critique of then-contemporary modernist art education, who have embarked on a series of theoretical investigations which became increasingly politicised under the pressures of an evolving social crisis. Increased racism, unemployment and attacks on the organised working class all raised questions about how a critical art might respond.
