S1: E3 54-64 Painting and Sculpture of a Decade 1964

Malika Browne talks to former art critic Ian Dunlop about the landmark art show for Swinging London at the Tate, in 1964 for which the museum's Duveen Galleries were turned into a claustrophobic labyrinth of new art from America and Europe, putting London firmly on the art map.

Further reading:

The Shock of the New: Seven Historic Exhibitions of Modern Art by Ian Dunlop, 1972

This is an Ictus Media production, edited by Leo Hornak

London’s New Scene: Art and Culture in the 1960s by Professor Lisa Tickner, Yale University Press in 2020.

Watching:

Pop Goes the Easel by Ken Russell, 1962

Blow Up by Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966

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