The Art Of Brutalism (PDF)
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- Synopsis
- While most famously associated with numerous mid-century architects, Brutalism was a style of visual art that was also adopted by painters, sculptors, printmakers, and photographers. Taking into account Brutalist work by eminent artists such as Richard Hamilton and Eduardo Paolozzi, as well as lesser-known practitioners like Nigel Henderson and Magda Cordell , this volume focuses on a ten-year period between 1952 and 1962 when artists refused a programmatic set of aesthetics and began experimenting with images that had no set focal point, using non-traditional materials like bombsite debris in their work, and producing objects that were characterized by wit and energy along with anxiety, trauma, and melancholia
- Copyright:
- 2017
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- ISBN-13:
- 9780300222746
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 05/24/18
- Copyrighted By:
- Ben Highmore
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture
- Submitted By:
- Darren Ingram
- Proofread By:
- Sharon Bothwell
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.