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

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1990.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  709.42 In2 1990    ---  Available
Description 256 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 x 31 cm.
Note Exhibition organized by the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College ... [et al.] held between February 1, 1990 and August 18, 1991 at various locations.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-255).
Contents Introduction / Jacquelynn Baas -- Chronology / Graham Whitham -- Independent Group and the aesthetics of plenty / Lawrence Alloway -- Works in this exhibition : Magda Cordell / Jacquelynn Baas. Richard Hamilton / Graham Whitham. Nigel Henderson / James Lingwood. John McHale / Jacquelynn Baas. Eduardo Paolozzi ; Alison and Peter Smithson / David Robbins. William Turnbull / Graham Whitham. Exhibitions : Parallel of life and art ; Man, machine and motion ; This is tomorrow ; An exhibit / Graham Whitham -- Selections from critical writings : Lawrence Alloway. Reyner Banham. Toni del Renzio. Richard Hamilton. John McHale. Eduardo Paolozzi. Alison and Peter Smithson -- Retrospective statements : Lawrence Alloway. Mary Banham. Richard Hamilton. Geoffrey Holroyd. Magda Cordell McHale. Dorothy Morland. Eduardo Paolozzi. Toni del Renzio. Alison and Peter Smithson. James Stirling. William Turnbull. Colin St. John Wilson -- Night thoughts of a faded utopia / Theo Crosby -- "As found" and the "found" / Alison and Peter Smithson -- Learning from brutalism / Denise Scott Brown -- Artists of the IG : backgrounds and continuities / Diane Kirkpatrick -- Independent Group and art education in Britain 1950-1965 / David Thistlewood -- From ivory tower to control tower / Barry Curtis -- "Glorious techniculture" in nineteen-fifties Britain : the many cultural contexts of the Independent Group / David Mellor -- Independent Group : forerunners of postmodernism? / David Robbins.
Subject Independent Group (Association : Great Britain) -- Exhibitions.
Art, British -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
Added Author Robbins, David, 1937-
Hood Museum of Art.
ISBN 0262181398

 
    
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