ContentsIssueNo262 Dec/Jan 02-03
COVER Cornford & Cross Avant Garde 1997/2002 detail (photograph courtesy of Brighton Local Studies Library) {01} INTERVIEW
Mirror Images Douglas Gordon interviewed by Jean Wainwright {07} FEATURES
Reality Check J J Charlesworth asks whose reality is it anyway? {13} COMMENT
Editorial Letters 14} ARTNOTES [22} EXHIBITIONS
Reviews Smith/Stewart Mark Wilsher
{23} Cornford & Cross
Dave Beech {24} All you need to know
Paul Usherwood {26} James Ireland
Alicia Miller {27} Model Forms:
Sculpture and Architecture in 1950s and 60s Britain Martin Herbert {28} Matt Franks
Clare Manchester {29} Jonathan Parsons
Morgan Falconer {31} Susan Collins
Emma Safe {32} Tracey Emin
Michael Gibbs {33} Cornelia Parker
Maria Walsh {35} Bandwagon Jumping
Nick Crowe {36} Groove
Beryl Graham {37} Tim Head
Axel Lapp {38} Mamma Andersson
Sally O’Reilly {40} EDITIONS
Artists’ Books The Phone Book David Chandler {41} BOOKS
Left Shift Bill Drummond
{41} We Are All Normal
Caryn Faure Walker {42} Winter Reading
Andrew Wilson {44} FILM
Alfred Leslie Ian Hunt {45} NETWORKS
Who Controls New Media? Michael Gibbs {46} SALEROOMS
Now you see i t ... Colin Gleadell {48} ARTLAW
Theft, Lies & Videotape Henry Lydiate {50} LISTINGS
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