The Independent Group : postwar Britain and the aesthetics of plenty / edited by David Robbins.

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The Independent Group : postwar Britain and the aesthetics of plenty / edited by David Robbins.

Publication:

Description:

256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 x 31 cm

Notes:
Exhibition organized by the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College [and others] held between February 1, 1990 and August 18, 1991 at various locations.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-255).
Foreword and acknowledgments -- Introduction / Jacquelynn Baas -- Chronology / Graham Whitham -- The Independent Group and the aesthetics of plenty / Lawrence Alloway -- Sources -- Works in this exhibition -- Exhibitions/ Graham Whitham -- Selections from critical writings -- Retrospective statements -- Night thoughts of a faded utopia / Theo Crosby -- The "As found" and the "Found" / Alison and Peter Smithson -- Learning from Brutalism / Denise Scott Brown -- The artists of the IG: backgrounds and continuities / Diane Kirkpatrick -- The Independent Group and art education in Britain 1950-1965 / David Thistlewood -- From ivory tower to control tower / Barry Curtis -- A "Glorious techniculture" in nineteen-fifties Britain : the many cultural contexts of the Independent Group / David Mellor -- The Independent Group : forerunners of postmodernism? / David Robbins -- Appendix: An account of the 1955 IG meetings.
Exhibition organised by the Hood Museum of Art [and others] held between February 1, 1990 and August 18, 1991 at various locations.

ISBN:

0262181398
9780262181396

Subject:

Independent Group (Association : Great Britain) Exhibitions.
Independent Group (Movement).
Independent Group (Association : Grande-Bretagne) Expositions.
Independent Group (Association : Great Britain)
Art, British 20th century Exhibitions.
Art britannique 20e siècle Expositions.
Art, British
Pop-art.
Kunstenaarsgroepen.
The Independent Group.
Art moderne 1945- ... Grande Bretagne Expositions.
Art Grande-Bretagne 20e siècle.
Visual arts
Great Britain

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Robbins, David, 1937-
Hood Museum of Art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 58416
Call No.: IDM EXHX; ID:90-B6778
Status: Available

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