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. This original study offers insights into how Brutalism enabled British artists of the mid-20th century to respond ethically and aesthetically to the challenges posed by the rise of consumer culture and unbridled technological progress.
Published in association with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
- ISBN10 0300222742
- ISBN13 9780300222746
- Publish Date 6 June 2017
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 31 March 2023
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 304
- Language English
- URL http://wiley.com/remtitle.cgi?isbn=9780300222746