| Description | These archival works form part of the Thomas Frangenberg Bequest of artworks, archives and library items. This archive collection therefore comprises the following:
- Art & Language (Michael Baldwin & Philip Pilkington), 'Dialectical materialism' (1974), 15 archival pages of text for the installation 'Dialectical Materialism'. Art & Language have stated that though these papers are of purely archival significance (the work itself exists in a private collection).
- Sue Arrowsmith, 'Without Title (White frame/Black frame)' (1969), negatives & text on paper containing instructions for the installation.
- Sue Arrowsmith, 'Street Walk' (1970), print containing instructions for the making of a conceptual work.
- Sue Arrowsmith, 'Projection Piece 2', (1970/1), printed paper containing instructions for the making of a conceptual work.
- Sue Arrowsmith, 'Projection Piece 1', (1973), 2 sets of slides and instructions for the making and display of the work.
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| Administrative History | Thomas Frangenberg (1958-2018) was a historian of renaissance art but also a passionate collector of contemporary art since the late 1970s. The majority of his collection was acquired direct from artists (the majority of whom became his friends), often early in their careers and concentrated on art that worked within the traditions of conceptual art. At the time of his death the collection numbered about 700 works. Although Frangenberg had been collecting since the late 1970s, he achieved a peak of activity during the 1990s, concentrating not on the young British artists, the so-called YBAs, but on those artists of that and successive generations who explicitly engaged with and extended the traditions of conceptual art. |
| Custodial History | Purchased by Thomas Frangenberg, [c 1984]-2002 |