Description
| Product ID: | 9781913107109 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | London's New Scene |
| Subtitle: | Art and Culture in the 1960s |
| Authors: | Author: Lisa Tickner |
| Page Count: | 416 |
| Subjects: | The arts: general topics, The arts: general issues, History of art, General and world history, European history, History, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, General & world history, British & Irish history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, United Kingdom, Great Britain, 20th century |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A groundbreaking and extensively researched account of the 1960s London art scene In the 1960s, London became a vibrant hub of artistic production. Postwar reconstruction, jet air travel, television arts programs, new color supplements, a generation of young artists, dealers, and curators, the influx of international film companies, the projection of “creative Britain” as a national brand—all nurtured and promoted the emergence of London as “a new capital of art.” Extensively illustrated and researched, this book offers an unprecedented, rich account of the social field that constituted the lively London scene of the 1960s. In clear, fluent prose, Tickner presents an innovative sequence of critical case studies, each of which explores a particular institution or event in the cultural life of London between 1962 and 1968. The result is a kaleidoscopic view of an exuberant decade in the history of British art. Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art |
| Imprint Name: | Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art |
| Publisher Name: | Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-06-09 |