The Independent Group (IG)
Terence Conran at Design Museum, London (2011-12) (press release)
→ café libraryADP staff - 02 Jan 12
Terence Conran at Design Museum, London (2011-12) (press release) ADP staff; Text by Design Museum, London artdesigncafé | café library | Published 2 January 2012 Terence Conran, c. 1950, by Ray Williams. Press Release Terence Conran— The way we live now Design Museum, London 16...
Mona Lisa Smile (2003) film review (2009)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker - 05 Jun 09
Mona Lisa Smile (2003) film review (2009) A review by John A. Walker (2009), the author of Art & Artists on screen. Art historians as characters rarely appear in fictional feature films but in the American movie Mona Lisa Smile (Revolution Studios, red OM films and Columbia Pictures,...
"This is Tomorrow" exhibition
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 18 Jun 92
"This is Tomorrow" exhibition Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. This is Tomorrow exhibition This is Tomorrow was an influential and popular mixed-media exhibition held at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, in 1956. The original idea...
Styling (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 17 Jun 92
Styling (1992) Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Styling A style is normally thought of as the visual expression of unconscious factors; however, the words “styling” and “stylization” imply a self-conscious process. Stylists are designers...
Pop Art (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 15 Jun 92
Pop Art (1992) (Also Commodity Art, Commonism, Consumer Style, Consumerist Realism, Factualist Art, Gag Art, Industrial Art, New Sign Painting, New Super Realism, O K Art, Reactionary Realism.) Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Pop Art...
Car culture (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 03 Jun 92
Car culture (1992) Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Car Culture Car culture is a term used by several writers to sum up the human behaviour associated with automobiles. Roland Barthes has argued that the motor car is the modern day...
The Independent Group:
Fathers [and mothers] of Pop (1990)
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John A. Walker - 01 Feb 90
The Independent Group: Fathers [and mothers] of Pop (1990) A review of the exhibition The Independent Group: Post-War Britain and the Aesthetics of Plenty, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Feb-April 1990. Britain in the early 1950s was still suffering from the adverse effects of the...
Art in the age of mass media (1984)
→ Art Design Publicity magazineClive Boutle - 01 Jul 84
Art in the age of mass media (1984) John A. Walker interviewed by Clive Boutle. Clive Boutle: What prompted you to write [the book] Art in the age of mass media? John A. Walker: Since the late 1970s I have been teaching a course on art and mass culture to fine art students and there was...
