Independent Group: Postwar Britain and the Aesthetics of Plenty

by Lawrence Alloway

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262181398
• ISBN13: 9780262181396
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 3.25 lbs.