| LC control no. | n 88653568 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Baxter&, Iain, 1936- |
| Variant(s) | Baxter, Iain Baxter, Iain, 1936- Baxter, Iain Joseph Wilson, 1936- Baxter, Joseph Iain Wilson, 1936- Baxterand, Iain, 1936- Iain, 1936- |
| See also | Corporate body: N.E. Baxter Thing Co. Corporate body: N.E. Thing Company |
| Associated country | Canada |
| Birth date | 19361116 |
| Place of birth | Middlesbrough (England) |
| Field of activity | Art Conceptual art Photography Installations (Art) |
| Profession or occupation | Artists Photographers Sculptors |
| Found in | nuc87-110152: Fleming, M. Baxter 2, c1982 (hdg. on TxDaM rept.: Baxter, Iain) LC data base, 8/5/88 (hdg.: Baxter, Iain; usage: Iain Baxter) NLC, 3/24/88 (hdg.: Baxter, Iain, 1936- ; Full name: Joseph Iain Wilson Baxter) Wikipedia, Mar. 7, 2012 (Iain Baxter&, OC, OBC; b. Iain Baxter, Nov. 16, 1936, Middlesbrough, England; emigrated to Canada, 1937; Canadian conceptual artist; in 2005, legally changed his name to Iain Baxter&, in part to reflect his fascination for the ampersand as a typographic mark, but also to reflect what he values in a "non-authorial take on art production ... an unending collaboration with the viewer and the means to question the artist's role") Library and Archives Canada auth. file via VIAF, Mar. 7, 2012 (hdg.: Baxter, Iain, 1936- ; ref. from Baxter&, Iain, 1936- ) Iain Baxter& : works 1958-2011, c2011: p. 5 (Iain Baxter& was born Iain Joseph Wilson Baxter in 1936. In 2005 he legally changed his name to Iain Baxter& (pronounced Baxterand); began creating artwork under his given name in the late 1950s; in 1966 he established IT, an art-making entity, with John Friel and Ingrid Baxter. The group disbanded later that year, and the N.E. Baxter Thing Co. was founded with Iain Baxter serving as president. The company was renamed N.E. Thing Co. in 1967 and was officially incorporated in British Columbia in 1969 as N.E. Thing Co. Ltd., at which time Iain and Ingrid became co-presidents; the company disbanded in 1978 when Iain and Ingrid ended their relationship. Following its dissolution, Baxter again produce artwork under his given name--both singularly and with his wife Louise Chance Baxter--until he changed his name to Iain Baxter& in 2005) p. 4 of cover ("his defining contribution to mainstream histories of conceptual art, photography, and installation art") Union list of artist names, via WWW, Dec. 9, 2012 (Baxter, Iain (Canadian conceptual artist, born 1936); variant: Baxter, Iain Joseph Wilson; roles: artist (preferred), conceptual artist, sculptor; gender: male; born: England (United Kingdom); member of: N. E. Thing Co.) |
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