Author | : David Robbins |
Publisher | : MIT Press (MA) |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780262181396 |
This book provides the first comprehensive view of the IG's aims and significance.
Author | : David Robbins |
Publisher | : MIT Press (MA) |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780262181396 |
This book provides the first comprehensive view of the IG's aims and significance.
Author | : Kevin Lotery |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020-04-14 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0262043890 |
How a group of artists and theorists turned to exhibition design as the only medium capable of synthesizing high and low in postwar culture. In 1950s London, a cadre of young artists, theorists, and popular culture aficionados known as the Independent Group (IG) came together for a series of pressing meetings. Their humble goal: to reimagine the structure of postwar culture by situating art in the midst of military-industrial technologies and pop pleasures. In this book, Kevin Lotery argues that the IG turned to the cross-disciplinary form of exhibition design as the only medium capable of getting the measure of these forces, the only technique that could integrate high and low, aesthetic and scientific, and redesign them in turn. At the heart of this story are the IG's most unruly members, including artists Richard Hamilton, Nigel Henderson, and Eduardo Paolozzi; architects Alison and Peter Smithson; and critics Lawrence Alloway and Reyner Banham. To these upstarts, art was no more privileged an activity than the streamlining of a helicopter blade or the screening of the latest cinema spectacle. In place of the old cultural hierarchies, they saw a continuum that Alloway termed “the long front of culture.” Only exhibition making could redirect this “long front” toward something genuinely, startlingly new. Lotery shows that the IG's exhibitions sought out temporary interfaces with technological invention and scientific research in a search for the form of the new itself. The IG exhibitions he examines drew on biological morphogenesis, anthropology and photography, human-machine prosthetics, American pop, abstraction, and theories of play. The IG is often described as the precursor to the pop art of the 1960s. Lotery shows that it was much more, as entangled with the histories of science, technology, and design as with the dialectics of modern art and mass culture
Author | : Anne Massey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780719042447 |
This study looks at the artists, designers and writers who formed the Independent Group in the early 1950s including such influential figures as Richard Hamilton, Eduardo Paolozzi, Nigel Henderson, William Turnball, Rayner Banham and Alison and Peter Smithson. As a group they aimed to raise the status of popular objects and icons within modern visual culture. The development of the Independent Group is mapped out against the changing nature of modernism during the Cold War era, as well as the impact of mass consumption on post-war British society. In this book, Massey examines the cultural context of the formation of the Group, covering the founding of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the meanings of modernism, and the creation of a national identity. Key exhibitions such as "Parallel of Life and Art" and "This Is Tomorrow" are also examined.
Author | : Claude Lichtenstein |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9783907078433 |
British art and architecture of the 1950s are little known but extraordinarily topical today. Of particular relevance are the activities of the Independent Group, a loosely structured organization whose members included artists Richard Hamilton, Eduardo Paolozzi, and Magda Cordell, More...photographer Nigel Henderson, critics Reyner Banham and Lawrence Alloway, and architects Alison and Peter Smithson, James Stirling, and Colin St. John Wilson, who sought the essence of the everyday through a sensitivity to the hardships and charm of life in the raw. As Found encounters the transdisciplinary relationship between the constructed environment as it is visually perceived and verbally expressed. Edited by Claude Lichtenstein & Thomas Schregenberger. Artists include: Magda Cordell, Richard Hamilton, Nigel Henderson and Eduardo Paolozzi. Architects include: Alison & Peter Smithson, James Stirling and Colin St. John Wilson.
Author | : Anne Massey |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780719042454 |
This study looks at the artists, designers and writers who formed the Independent Group in the early 1950s including such influential figures as Richard Hamilton, Eduardo Paolozzi, Nigel Henderson, William Turnball, Rayner Banham and Alison and Peter Smithson. As a group they aimed to raise the status of popular objects and icons within modern visual culture. The development of the Independent Group is mapped out against the changing nature of modernism during the Cold War era, as well as the impact of mass consumption on post-war British society. In this book, Massey examines the cultural context of the formation of the Group, covering the founding of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the meanings of modernism, and the creation of a national identity. Key exhibitions such as "Parallel of Life and Art" and "This Is Tomorrow" are also examined.
Author | : PETER. MCNAB |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2021-04-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781839754654 |
In February 2019, five Members of Parliament Ann Coffey, Anna Soubry, Chris Leslie, Joan Ryan, and Mike Gapes left the political parties they had belonged to for decades to form a new party. This book based on hours of interviews charts the process by which each of them came to make such a momentous and life-changing decision. None of them regrets their actions, and they would do the same again. "The actions of the five Members of Parliament are a challenge to a party system which instead of protecting against extremism, can become the vehicle for it." - Peter McNab
Author | : Lawrence Alloway |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
"Catalog of the exhibition:" p. viii-xii. Bibliography: p. 133-140. Based on an exhibition organized for and shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, April 16. 1974, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Author | : Samara Klar |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2016-01-19 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1316539067 |
The number of independent voters in America increases each year, yet they remain misunderstood by both media and academics. Media describe independents as pivotal for electoral outcomes. Political scientists conclude that independents are merely 'undercover partisans': people who secretly hold partisan beliefs and are thus politically inconsequential. Both the pundits and the political scientists are wrong, argue the authors. They show that many Americans are becoming embarrassed of their political party. They deny to pollsters, party activists, friends, and even themselves, their true partisanship, instead choosing to go 'undercover' as independents. Independent Politics demonstrates that people intentionally mask their partisan preferences in social situations. Most importantly, breaking with decades of previous research, it argues that independents are highly politically consequential. The same motivations that lead people to identify as independent also diminish their willingness to engage in the types of political action that sustain the grassroots movements of American politics.