Exhibition, design, participation : 'an Exhibit' 1957 and related projects / Elena Crippa ; with additional essays by Martin Beck and Owen Hatherley ; texts by Lawrence Alloway and David Sylvester ; interviews with artists Richard Hamilton (conducted by Dorothy Morland) and Victor Pasmore (conducted by Leif Sjöberg) ; and an introduction by Lucy Steeds
MSRL copy Purchased from the C. Michael Gooden Endowment.
Contents:
Introduction: Exhibition, design, participation / Lucy Steeds -- Designing exhibitions, exhibiting participation / Elena Crippa -- Richard Hamilton, Victor Pasmore and Lawrence Alloway, 'an Exhibit', 1957 -- Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne : Installing ; Exhibition -- 'an Exhibit' fold-out poster/catalogue -- Institute of Contemporary Arts, London : Diagrams ; Installing ; Invitation card ; Calypso ; Exhibition -- Related projects involving Alloway, Hamilton and Pasmore : Mural relief, Kingston bus depot canteen, 1950 ; The waterfall, 1951 ; 'Growth and form', 1951 ; Exhibitions at 22 Fitzroy Street, 1952-53 ; 'Man, machine and motion', 1955 ; Model for Enrico Fermi memorial museum, 1955-56 ; 'This is tomorrow', 1956 ; 'Exhibit 2', 1959 ; 'Place', 1959 ; The Apollo Pavilion and Peterlee, 1954-69 -- 'an Exhibit', reviewed / David Sylvester, 1957 -- The spectator's intervention / Lawrence Alloway, 1955 -- Interviews : Questions to Victor Pasmore by Leif Sjöberg, 1960 ; Richard Hamilton in conversation with Dorothy Morland, c.1976-78 -- Our friends in the North / Owen Hatherley -- Revisiting the form of 'an Exhibit' / Martin Beck -- 'an Exhibit', re-exhibited, re-worked
Summary:
The radical project 'an Exhibit' emerged from a decade of testing the formats and possibilities of exhibition-making. A collaboration between two artists, Richard Hamilton and Victor Pasmore, and critic Lawrence Alloway, the show was simultaneously an investigation into abstract environmental forms and a participatory experiment that would fundamentally transform the role of the viewer. Comprehensive documentation of the original exhibition is presented alongside coverage of other key projects from the era and contextualised through the detailed analysis of Elena Crippa. Archival texts conveying the different voices of 'an Exhibit's three creators and an essay from the time by David Sylvester are accompanied by new contributions by Martin Beck, Owen Hatherley and Lucy Steeds. This book addresses the diverse legacies of 'an Exhibit' from its reverberations in contemporary art practice to its influence on urban design and social housing.--Provided by the publisher.
