British Art, Popular Culture - Great Britain, Modern Art
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Overview
The major aim of this book is to offer a new understanding of the history of Independent Group. To date, the Independent Group's significance has been assessed only within the broader history of Pop Art. This book offers a fresh analysis of the Group with reference to the meaning of modernism and mass culture in post-war Britain.Editorials
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Offers a new understanding of the history of the Independent Group, a loose collection of artists, designers, and writers whose careers were interrupted by WWII, assessing the Group's significance within the context of the meaning of modernism and mass culture in post-war Britain. The author applies the approach of the Independent Group, with its erosion of the high/low culture divide and re-evaluation of consumption, to the Group itself, discussing Cold War culture, aesthetics problems of contemporary art, and the Group and post- modernism. Includes b&w illustrations. Paper edition (unseen), $24.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
September 1, 1995
Publisher
Manchester ; Manchester University Press ; 1995.
Pages
160
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780719042447