The Independent Group

by Anne Massey

Book Overview

This study looks at the artists, designers and writers who formed the Independent Group in the early 1950s including such influential figures as Richard Hamilton, Eduardo Paolozzi, Nigel Henderson, William Turnball, Rayner Banham and Alison and Peter Smithson. As a group they aimed to raise the status of popular objects and icons within modern visual culture. The development of the Independent Group is mapped out against the changing nature of modernism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719042453
• ISBN13: 9780719042454
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.2"