The Independent Group and Little Magazines, 1956-64
- Submitting institution
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The University of Huddersfield
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 61
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1080/20507828.2017.1398479
- Title of journal
- Architecture and Culture
- Article number
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- First page
- 17
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 2050-7828
- Open access status
- Technical exception
- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2018
- 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
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This article in the academic journal, Architecture and Culture makes the case for the little magazine as an overlooked component in the understanding of the Independent Group. This builds on Anne Massey’s extensive work on the history of the group, particularly her books The Independent Group: Modernism and Mass Culture, 1945-59 (Manchester University Press, 1995) and ICA 1946-68 (ICA, 2014). It offers a supplement to the inclusion of the Independent Group in architectural history, which has tended to focus on the individual architect. Rather than looking at images as isolated embodiments of Independent Group ideas, this article looks at the dissemination of the group’s ideas in the later 1950s and 1960s. The article asks: how can this ‘behind the scenes’ approach add to our understanding of the Independent Group and the discourse of architecture?
Massey drew on new, primary research to construct her argument, including an interview with Mary Banham, held at the British Library Sound Archives; the Design Archives at Brighton University, the Archives and Special Collection at London College of Communication, UAL and the ICA Managing Committee Minutes at Tate Archives. She also spoke to Dr Ann Pillar, an expert on the designer, Edward Wright and interviewed Robert Freeman, the photographer (1936-2019).
Massey presented the article as a work in progress at an invited seminar at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in March 2017. This then resulted in a short contribution to Issue 6 of British Art Studies, a ‘Conversation Piece’ edited by Tom Crow on ‘Art by the Many: London Style Cults of the 1960s’. Following the publication of the article, Stephen Parnell of Newcastle University contacted Massey for more information about Theo Crosby.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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