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AS FOUND. Die Entdeckung des Gewöhnlichen. Britische Architektur und Kunst der 50er Jahre | Claude Lichtenstein, Thomas Schregenberger | 9783907078402

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AS FOUND. Die Entdeckung des Gewöhnlichen

Britische Architektur und Kunst der 50er Jahre

Auteur:Claude Lichtenstein, Thomas Schregenberger

Uitgever:Lars Müller

ISBN: 978-3-907078-40-2

  • Hardcover
  • Duits
  • 320 pagina's
  • 1 mrt. 2001

Works of art were created in the England of the 50s and 60s which are of extraordniary topicality today. This applies particularly to the Independent Group which included artists, photographers as well as architects.

Its members strove to achieve an authenticity close to the grass roots of life, to discover the essence of the everyday, to arouse a sensitivity to life in the raw as against a touched-up version of reality, to bring out both its hardships and its charm. The book 'AS FOUND. Die Entdeckung des Gewöhnlichen. Britische Architektur und Kunst der 50er Jahre' is about architecture and art and photography. It seeks rather to show the unmediated impact and direct appeal of a refractory aesthetics.

Works of art were created in the England of the 50s and 60s which are of extraordniary topicality today. This applies particularly to the Independent Group which included artists as Richard Hamilton, Eduardo Paolozzi and Magda Cordell, the photographer Nigel Henderson, critics Reyner Banham and Lawrence Alloway as well as architects such as Alison and Peter Smithson, James Stirling and Colin St. John Wilson.

Its members strove to achieve an authenticity close to the grass roots of life, to discover the essence of the everyday, to arouse a sensitivity to life in the raw as against a touched-up version of reality, to bring out both its hardships and its charm. The book 'AS FOUND. Die Entdeckung des Gewöhnlichen. Britische Architektur und Kunst der 50er Jahre' is about architecture and art and photography. It seeks rather to show the unmediated impact and direct appeal of a refractory aesthetics.

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