The Independent Group : postwar Britain and the aesthetics of plenty
1990, First Edition. Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Copy notes; signed and inscribed to Mark Girouard FSA, British architectural historian, by artist and contributor Magda Cordell McHale. Item #481013
ISBN: 0262181398
Physical description; 256 pages : illustrations, colour and black and white ; 25 cm. Notes; Foreword and acknowledgements by Jacquelynn Baas, James Cuno, Richard Koshalek, and Bill McAlister. Introduction and essays by Jacquelynn Baas. Essays by Lawrence Alloway, Theo Crosby, Barry Curtis, Diane Kirkpatrick, David Mellor, David Robbins, Denise Scott Brown, Alison and Peter Smithson, and David Thistlewood, among others, with retrospective statements by original IG members including Richard Hamilton, Eduardo Paolozzi, and William Turnbull. Published in conjunction with the exhibition originating at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 1 February-1 April 1990, distributed for the University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley. Subjects; Independent Group Exhibitions. Art, British History, 20th century Exhibitions. Postmodernism Great Britain.
Price: €125.00