ABSTRACT
Harold Wilson said, 'A week is a long time in politics.' At the moment, it is every bit as long in the visual arts. Fuller's views regarding the artworld would never have been heard without the rapid expansion of the art press in Britain that took place in 1976. Cork's 'Art for Society' ran into a great deal of controversy when a number of artists had their work excluded from the exhibition when it reached Northern Ireland. On 18 October 1976, in the middle of the imf crisis, coum Transmission's 'Prostitution' show opened at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, a retrospective guaranteed to dislocate human cultivation and public order. In Britain, debate and control of the arts were entirely the province of whatever body of trustees had power vested in them, and whatever groups of advisers, experts and officials were brought in to assist the regional Arts Councils.
