David Robbins Jacquelynn Baas (6 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Used - Like New. The Independent Group, or the IG, as it was called, is best known for having launched Pop Art. But the young artists, architects, and critics who met informally at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts in the early 1950s were actually embarked on a far more subversive and constructive mission than the founding of an art movement. Street-smart, anti-academic, and iconoclastic, they embraced Hollywood and Madison Avenue and rejected the traditional dichotomies between high and low culture, British and American values. They used their meetings and exhibitions to challenge the official modernist assumptions of British aesthetics and to advocate instead a media-based, consumer-based aesthetics of change and inclusiveness - an aesthetics of plenty. In doing so they drew upon Dadaist, Futurist, and Surrealist strategies to invigorate their alternative version of modernism - a version that today can be said to have insinuated the terms of postmodernism.This book provides the first comprehensive view of the IG's aims and significance. The texts and illustrations fully represent the achievements of its leaders, including artists Richard Hamilton and Eduardo Paolozzi, architects Alison and Peter Smithson, and critics Lawrence Alloway and Reyner Banham. The historic exhibitions that publicized the ideas of IG members are also documented - 'Parallel of Life and Art,' 'Man, Machine and Motions,' 'This Is Tomorrow,' and 'An Exhibit.' Above all, the book emphasizes the interaction between the exhibitions, discussions, art and writings of IG members, showing the ways in which they established a new aesthetic horizon.David Robbins is a freelance writer and editor in Berkeley, California. Distributed for the University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley.Essays by: Lawrence Alloway, Theo Crosby, Barry Curtis, Diane Kirkpatrick, David Mellor, David Robbins, Denise Scott Brown, Alison and Peter Smithson, David ThistlewoodRetrospective Statements by: 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 This book provides the first comprehensive view of the IG's aims and significance. wrapped in complimentary Brodart dust jacket protector. Very nice clean, tight copy free of any marks.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Oversized hardcover with dust jacket. Pictorial DJ has mild edge wear and sun fading, but remains in otherwise good condition. Book is bound in yellow cloth over boards with black lettering down the spine. Covers are crisp and clean. Corners are square. Binding is tight and secure. Pages are crisp, clean, and bright. Images are printed in full color and B&W. 256 pages. MIT Press. Copyright dated 1990. This is an oversized book, so extra postage will be necessary for priority or international shipping. We ship everyday from a real neighborhood bookstore. This description is written by an actual person, who is holding the book in front of them to make sure it?s properly described. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No jacket. Illustrated wrappers, 25 cm (oblong), 256 pages, color and black & white illustrations throughout. Exhibit catalogue published with the exhibit "The Independent Group: Postwar Britain and the Aesthetics of Plenty". Some water damage, with rippled pages from the spine to four inches in. As-Is.…

paperback. Condition: Like New. First Paperback Edition. Publisher: MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1990. FINE softcover in illustrated/pictorial wraps, as issued. First Softcover Edition, First Printing. As new. Pristine.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condition: New.