
Flyer for Issue 18
2009

A Short Survey of CONTROL Magazine 1965–2017
In 1965 Stephen Willats was in touch with a group of artists, designers and art theoreticians to put together a new art magazine, which came to be called Control. It cost £67 to print, 450 copies were made and sold for 3/- each, as a not-for-profit magazine without adverts or any other commercial linkage, selling mostly through independent bookshops and, in addition, there was a small exhibition of the magazine at a book shop in Charing Cross Road. Issue One was anonymous, with no date and no Editor... continue reading

The Bookshop, Sunderland
1970

Gladstone Thompson
The Meeting Place
Issue Twenty, 2017


Nils Norman, Elinor Jansz,
Christabel Stewart, Emily Pethick
Superclinic
Issue Sixteen, 2001
Stephen Willats, Control Magazine, Studio International, 1976
CONTROL MAGAZINE
Stephen Willats
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Control Magazine is published and edited by Stephen Willats at 5 London Mews, London W2. The Magazine was started by myself in 1965, as an occasional journal that centred on the development of a socially relevant theory and practice in art. Right from the magazine’s inception it has been seen as a manifestation of the editorial standpoint for models of information associated with the concept of self-determinism. As an ideology the concept of... continue reading
PUBLICITY
Contributors 1980–1989
Issue Thirteen 1982
Bill Woodrow
Glenys Johnson
Jenny Holzer
David Evans & Sam Burford
Kate Blacker
Jean-Luc Vilmouth
Stephen Willats
Sue Arrowsmith
Tony Bevan
Tony Cragg
Anish Kapoor
Issue Twelve 1981
Lili Fischer
Stephen Willats
Helen Chadwick
Michael Peel
Bernhard Sandfort
Fred Forest
Gallerie in Friedrichstrasse
F & F Schule für Experimentelle Gastaltung Zürich

Bill Woodrow
TV Blind
Issue Thirteen, 1982

Alan Murray
My Statement in the Gallery is the Reason for the Successful Manual in the Box
Issue Fifteen, 1996

Joe Tilson
Item
Issue Three, 1967

Endre Tot
Total Joys
Issue Fourteen, 1990

Vito Acconci
Preliminary Proposal for Museum Lawn, Williams College
Issue Eighteen, 2009

Nils Norman
Issue Seventeen, 2007

Letter from Art Metropole
1977

Ernest Edmonds
Video Construct Communication Systems
Issue Fourteen, 1990

Dan Mitchell
The Black and White Pages of Control and Social Psychology
Issue Eighteen, 2009

Flyer for Issue Thirteen
1982

David Evans & Sam Burford
Blocks
Issue Thirteen, 1982

Matthew Higgs
Local News
Issue Fifteen, 1996

Poster Studio
Issue Fifteen, 1996