The Long Front of Culture: The Independent Group and Exhibition Design

by Kevin Lotery

How a group of artists and theorists turned to exhibition design as the only medium capable of synthesizing high and low in postwar culture.

In 1950s London, a cadre of young artists, theorists, and popular culture aficionados known as the Independent Group (IG) came together for a series of pressing meetings. Their humble goal: to reimagine the structure of postwar culture by situating art in the midst of military-industrial technologies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262043890
• ISBN13: 9780262043892
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 9.1"