Art and the Sixties: This Was Tomorrow
The myths and realities of the "swinging sixties" provide the backdrop to this unique and beautifully illustrated book, which accompanies an exhibition at Tate Britain. In an age when Britain was undergoing rapid social and cultural change, aesthetics were also being transformed, resulting in new departures in the form and content of British art. Unlike previous books on the subject, Art and the 60's: This Was Tomorrow explores the blurring boundaries within art of the time and its evolving relationships with other cultural forms.

The work of artists David Hockney, Bridget Riley, Richard Hamilton, Peter Blake, David Bailey, Colin Self, Eduardo Paolozzi, and Allan Jones, among others, is examined alongside developments in the media, photography, popular culture, architecture, and advertising. Art and the 60's is both a history of British art in the 1960s and a portrait of an era.

Author Bio: Chris Stephens is a Tate curator and author of Barbara Hepworth Centenary and Gwen John and Augustus John. Katharine Stout is a Tate curator.

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Art and the Sixties: This Was Tomorrow
The myths and realities of the "swinging sixties" provide the backdrop to this unique and beautifully illustrated book, which accompanies an exhibition at Tate Britain. In an age when Britain was undergoing rapid social and cultural change, aesthetics were also being transformed, resulting in new departures in the form and content of British art. Unlike previous books on the subject, Art and the 60's: This Was Tomorrow explores the blurring boundaries within art of the time and its evolving relationships with other cultural forms.

The work of artists David Hockney, Bridget Riley, Richard Hamilton, Peter Blake, David Bailey, Colin Self, Eduardo Paolozzi, and Allan Jones, among others, is examined alongside developments in the media, photography, popular culture, architecture, and advertising. Art and the 60's is both a history of British art in the 1960s and a portrait of an era.

Author Bio: Chris Stephens is a Tate curator and author of Barbara Hepworth Centenary and Gwen John and Augustus John. Katharine Stout is a Tate curator.

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Art and the Sixties: This Was Tomorrow

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Art and the Sixties: This Was Tomorrow

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The myths and realities of the "swinging sixties" provide the backdrop to this unique and beautifully illustrated book, which accompanies an exhibition at Tate Britain. In an age when Britain was undergoing rapid social and cultural change, aesthetics were also being transformed, resulting in new departures in the form and content of British art. Unlike previous books on the subject, Art and the 60's: This Was Tomorrow explores the blurring boundaries within art of the time and its evolving relationships with other cultural forms.

The work of artists David Hockney, Bridget Riley, Richard Hamilton, Peter Blake, David Bailey, Colin Self, Eduardo Paolozzi, and Allan Jones, among others, is examined alongside developments in the media, photography, popular culture, architecture, and advertising. Art and the 60's is both a history of British art in the 1960s and a portrait of an era.

Author Bio: Chris Stephens is a Tate curator and author of Barbara Hepworth Centenary and Gwen John and Augustus John. Katharine Stout is a Tate curator.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781854375223
Publisher: Tate Publishing, Limited
Publication date: 10/27/2004
Pages: 160
Product dimensions: 8.62(w) x 10.87(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

This Was Tomorrow8
William Green42
'A Highly Mobile and Plastic Environ'46
Colin Self and the Bomb64
Realism, Satire, Blow-Ups: Photography and the Culture of Social Modernisation68
Sculpture at St Martin's88
A Poetics of Dissent; Notes on a Developing Counterculture in London in The Early Sixties92
Bruce Lacey, The Womaniser 1966112
British Architecture in the Sixties116
Richard Hamilton, Swingeing London 67134
Selected Chronology: 1956-69138
Notes145
List of Exhibited Works154
Index159
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