Collaborative and individual works created in the 1950s by a group of young British artists, architects and critics which re-created several of the Independent Group's pioneering installations from the exhibitions "Parallel of Life and Art" (1953), "Man, Machine and Motion" (1955) and "This Is Tomorrow" (1956); accompanied by a catalogue of the same title. Co-organized by MOCA, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; the University Art Museum, Berkeley; and the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; and traveled additionally to the IVAM Centro Julio Gonzalez in Valencia, Spain.
The Independent Group: Postwar Britain and the Aesthetics of Plenty
Exhibition
Exhibition
On view Nov 4 – Jan 13
The Independent Group: Postwar Britain and the Aesthetics of Plenty
Collaborative and individual works created in the 1950s by a group of young British artists, architects and critics which re-created several of the Independent Group's pioneering installations from the exhibitions "Parallel of Life and Art" (1953), "Man, Machine and Motion" (1955) and "This Is Tomorrow" (1956); accompanied by a catalogue of the same title. Co-organized by MOCA, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; the University Art Museum, Berkeley; and the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth …