Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1946-1968
- Submitting institution
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The University of Huddersfield
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 31
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Institute of Contemporary Arts
- ISBN
- 9789491843136
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This 50,000-wordsingle author book is the first comprehensive history of the first 22 years of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) to be published. The ICA commissioned the book from Anne Massey, world expert on the subject, whose publications include the standard reference work The Independent Group (Manchester University Press, 1995). There have been many unsuccessful attempts to write and publish a history of the ICA, mainly because it is a complex, multi-disciplinary organisation with modernist heritage twinned with a privileging of the contemporary. Massey took the decision to employ an exhibition histories approach to this multifaceted subject and selected 20 representative shows from over 100 as a focus with an overarching narrative, based on place and space. The primary research took place in the ICA archives, held by Tate, which also included the picture selection from the same source. This was the culmination of Massey working with the ICA and its Creative Director at that time, Gregor Muir, who wrote the Introduction. The design was undertaken in collaboration with specialist fine art graphics firm, Roma Publications, Amsterdam. The project was funded by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (PMC) and the Henry Moore Foundation. The PMC invited Massey to speak at a closed seminar about the book, and she contributed to a private curator’s tour of the Hamilton retrospective at Tate Modern. This research and the publication led to new insights being shared with the public through the book, a paper at the AAH conference at the RCA and favourable reviews, including Architectural Review. This was further enhanced by an exhibition held at the former home of the ICA which used the material Massey had selected, enlarged as exhibition panels throughout the premises.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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