The Long Front of Culture by Kevin Lotery - ISBN: 9780262043892
Hardcover
How a group of artists and theorists turned to exhibition design as the only medium capable of synthesizing high and low in postwar culture.

The Long Front of Culture

The Independent Group and Exhibition Design

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  • Hardcover

    384 pages

  • Release Date

    14 April 2020

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Summary

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 th…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262043892
ISBN-10:0262043890
Author:Kevin Lotery
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:384
Release Date:14 April 2020
Weight:666g
Dimensions:229mm x 178mm x 25mm
Series:October Books
About The Author

Kevin Lotery

Kevin Lotery is Lecturer in Art History in the School of Arts and Cultures at Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne.

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