The artist John Latham died in London on New Year's Day, he was 84 years old. indep
His work takes up a special place in Britain's art history. He was best known for his art activism of the sixties: burning the Encyclopedia Britannica (Skoob Tower Ceremony: National Encyclopedias, 1966) or chewing up and then distilling, the pages of Clement Greenberg's standard work of art criticism, putting the resulting alcohol in a glass phial (Still and Chew/Art and Culture, 1966-67).
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