Author: David MellorPublisher: Phaidon Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Published to accompany exhibition held at the Barbican Art Gallery, London, 11/3 - 13/6 1993.
The Sixties Art Scene in London
Author: David MellorPublisher: Phaidon Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Published to accompany exhibition held at the Barbican Art Gallery, London, 11/3 - 13/6 1993.
London's New Scene
Author: Lisa TicknerPublisher: Paul Mellon Centre BA
ISBN: 1913107108
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
A groundbreaking and extensively researched account of the 1960s London art scene In the 1960s, London became a vibrant hub of artistic production. Postwar reconstruction, jet air travel, television arts programs, new color supplements, a generation of young artists, dealers, and curators, the influx of international film companies, the projection of “creative Britain” as a national brand—all nurtured and promoted the emergence of London as “a new capital of art.” Extensively illustrated and researched, this book offers an unprecedented, rich account of the social field that constituted the lively London scene of the 1960s. In clear, fluent prose, Tickner presents an innovative sequence of critical case studies, each of which explores a particular institution or event in the cultural life of London between 1962 and 1968. The result is a kaleidoscopic view of an exuberant decade in the history of British art.
The Sixties Art Scene in London
Author: David MellorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The sixties saw the emergence of many of Britain's most important artists, amongst them Anthony Caro, Robyn Denny, David Hockney, Richard Hamilton and Bridget Riley. This book explores the explosion of styles and techniques which characterized the decade.
The Sixties Art Scene in London
Author: David MellorPublisher:
ISBN: 9780946372294
Category : Art, British
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
London Art Worlds
Author: Jo ApplinPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271081341
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
The essays in this collection explore the extraordinarily rich networks of international artists and art practices that emerged in and around London during the 1960s and ’70s, a period that saw an explosion of new media and fresh attitudes and approaches to making and thinking about art. The contributors to London Art Worlds examine the many activities and movements that existed alongside more established institutions in this period, from the rise of cybernetics and the founding of alternative publications to the public protests and new pedagogical models in London’s art schools. The essays explore how international artists and the rise of alternative venues, publications, and exhibitions, along with a growing mobilization of artists around political and cultural issues ranging from feminism to democracy, pushed the boundaries of the London art scene beyond the West End’s familiar galleries and posed a radical challenge to established modes of making and understanding art. Engaging, wide-ranging, and original, London Art Worlds provides a necessary perspective on the visual culture of the London art scene in the 1960s and ’70s. Art historians and scholars of the era will find these essays especially valuable and thought provoking. In addition to the editors, contributors to this volume are Elena Crippa, Antony Hudek, Dominic Johnson, Carmen Juliá, Courtney J. Martin, Lucy Reynolds, Joy Sleeman, Isobel Whitelegg, and Andrew Wilson.
The Rise of the Sixties
Author: Thomas E. CrowPublisher: Laurence King Publishing
ISBN: 9781856694261
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Thomas Crow's analysis of the art of the 1960s remains as fresh as ever as he expertly follows the broad range of artists working in Europe and America in the stormy years of the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War, and the counterculture. At a time when visual artists sought a variety of responses to the turmoil of the public sphere and struggled to have an impact on a world preoccupied with social crisis, Crow explores the relationship of politics to art, and shows how the rhetoric of one often informed - or subverted - the other. He also traces the emergence of a new aesthetic climate that challenged established notions of content, style, medium and audience.
The Sixties
Author: Arthur MarwickPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1448205425
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
If the World Wars defined the first half of the twentieth century, the sixties defined the second half, acting as the pivot on which modern times have turned. From popular music to individual liberties, the tastes and convictions of the Western world are indelibly stamped with the impact of this tumultuous decade. Framing the sixties as a period stretching from 1958 to 1974, Arthur Marwick argues that this long decade ushered in nothing less than a cultural revolution – one that raged most clearly in the United States, Britain, France, and Italy. Marwick recaptures the events and movements that shaped life as we know it: the rise of a youth subculture across the West; the sit-ins and marches of the civil rights movement; Britain's surprising rise to leadership in fashion and music; the emerging storm over Vietnam; the Paris student uprising of 1968; the growing force of feminism, and much more. For some, it was a golden age of liberation and political progress; for others, an era in which depravity was celebrated, and the secure moral and social framework subverted. The sixties was no short-term era of ecstasy and excess. On the contrary, the decade set the cultural and social agenda for the rest of the century, and left deep divisions still felt today.
Sixties Britain
Author: Mark DonnellyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317866622
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Sixties Britain provides a more nuanced and engaging history of Britain. This book analyses the main social, political, cultural and economic changes Britain undertook as well as focusing on the 'silent majority' who were just as important as the rebellious students, the residents if Soho and the icons of popular culture. Sixties Britain engages the reader without losing sight of the fact that the 1960s were a vibrant, fascinating and controversial time in British History.
Transition
Author: Martin HarrisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
In this text, art historian Martin Harrison brings the London of the fifties to life, in all its vigour & fertility. Ranging from painting to sculpture & from photography to architecture, he portrays a city in intellectual & artistic ferment.
Pop Art and Design
Author: Anne MasseyPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474226213
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This book offers the first in-depth analysis of the relationship between art and design, which led to the creation of 'pop'. Challenging accepted boundaries and definitions, the authors seek out various commonalities and points of connection between these two exciting areas. Confronting the all-pervasive 'high art / low culture' divide, Pop Art and Design brings a fresh understanding of visual culture during the vibrant 1950s and 60s. This was an era when commercial art became graphic design, illustration was superseded by photography and high fashion became street fashion, all against the backdrop of a rapidly-evolving economic and political landscape, a glamorous youth scene and an effervescent popular culture. The book's central argument is that pop art relied on and drew inspiration from pop design, and vice versa. Massey and Seago assert that this relationship was articulated through the artwork, design, publications and exhibitions of a network of key practitioners. Pop Art and Design provides a case study in the broader inter-relationship between art and design, and constitutes the first interdisciplinary publication on the subject.