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ID: 500126106
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500126106

 

Record Type: Corporate Body
Independent Group (British group of artists, active ca. 1952-1955)

Note: British group centered around London's ICA in the mid-1950s. It was comprised of artists, architects, and critics. Official group activities were limited to discussion groups, though members participated in exhibitions together, most notably "This is Tomorrow," mounted at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1956. The group is often referred to as a forerunner of the Pop movement of the 1960s. A group of talented young artists, architects, and critics, sponsored by the Institute of Contemporary Arts of London; act. in the 1950s.

Names:
Independent Group (preferred,V,display)
The Independent Group (V)
Independent Group, The (V)
IG (V)

Nationalities:
British (modern) (preferred)
English
Scottish (Scots, Scotsman)

Roles:
corporate body (preferred)
artists
artists' collective
painters
sculptors
draftsmen
printmakers
architects
designers

Gender: not applicable

Start and End Places:
Start:  London (Greater London, England, United Kingdom) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
member was ....  Alloway, Lawrence  
..................  (English curator and art critic, 1926-1990, active in the United States) [500346921]
member was ....  Hamilton, Richard  
..................  (English painter, printmaker, and designer, 1922-2011) [500126033]
member was ....  Henderson, Nigel  
..................  (British photographer and painter, 1917-1985) [500014178]
member was ....  McHale, John  
..................  (British painter, 1922-1978) [500012535]
member was ....  Paolozzi, Eduard  
..................  (British sculptor and printmaker, 1924-2005) [500027981]
member was ....  Smithson, Alison  
..................  (English architect, 1928-1993) [500030287]
member was ....  Smithson, Peter Denham  
..................  (English architect and draftsman, 1923-2003) [500009415]
member was ....  Turnbull, William  
..................  (Scottish painter and sculptor, 1922-2012) [500031291]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Corporate Bodies
 ........  Independent Group (I)

Biographies:
(British group of artists, active ca. 1952-1955) ..... [VP Preferred]
(British artists, contemporary) ..... [AVERY]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
IG ........ [AVERY, VP]
........  Avery Authority files (1963-)
........  Robbins, The Independent Group (1990) 76
Independent Group ........ [AVERY, VP Preferred]
....................................  Grove Art Online (2003-2008) accessed 2 April 2007
....................................  LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.] NAFL88237514: accessed 2 April 2007
....................................  Massey, The Independent Group (1995)
Independent Group, The ........ [VP]
.............................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
The Independent Group ........ [VP]
...........................................  Massey, The Independent Group (1995) title
...........................................  Robbins, The Independent Group (1990) title

Subject: ........ [AVERY, VP]
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................  Grove Art Online (2003-2008) accessed 2 April 2007
....................  LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
....................  Massey, The Independent Group (1995) title
....................  Robbins, The Independent Group (1990) title; 76
 
Note:
English .......... [AVERY, VP]
.......... LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
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