THE ART OF BRUTALISM

Taking into account Brutalist work by eminent artists such as Richard Hamilton and Eduardo Paolozzi, as well as lesser-known practit ioners like Nigel Henderson and Magda Cordell , this volume focuses on a ten-year period between 1952 and 1962 when artists refused a programmatic set of aesthetics and began experimenting with images that had no set focal point, using non-traditional materials li ke bombsite debris in their work, and producing objects that were characterized by wit and energy along with anxiety, trauma, and me lancholia...[Read more]