'The Obsessive Image' Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 1968
The Obsessive Image was the inaugural exhibition at the ICA’s current home on the Mall, having moved from its original location on Dover Street. The exhibition presented a survey of living artists, including a number of Americans, working with the image of the human figure. This was the first time the American sculptor George Segal showed work in Britain, and also the first screening in Europe of Andy Warhol’s six-hour-film ‘Sleep’ which ran non-stop for the duration of the show. Paul Thek showed ‘The Tomb’ which in the ICA’s press release was described as ‘a tomb in which reposes a life-sized dead Hippie’. The exhibition included 76 artists incluidng Francis Bacon, Peter Blake, Frank Bowling, Patrick Caufield, Max Ernst, Leonor Fini, Alberto Giacometti, Richard Hamilton, Jan Haworth, David Hockney. The catalogue includes a list of lenders and catalogue of 107 works, a large number of which are illustrated..
Title: The Obsessive Image
Author: foreword by Roland Penrose and Robert Melville. With a text by Mario Amaya.
Publisher: Institute of Contemporary Arts London
Publication Date: 1968
Binding: Pictorial softcover
Pages: 83pp. Mostly images.
Condition: Acceptable. Moderate edge wear, shelf wear.
The Obsessive Image was the inaugural exhibition at the ICA’s current home on the Mall, having moved from its original location on Dover Street. The exhibition presented a survey of living artists, including a number of Americans, working with the image of the human figure. This was the first time the American sculptor George Segal showed work in Britain, and also the first screening in Europe of Andy Warhol’s six-hour-film ‘Sleep’ which ran non-stop for the duration of the show. Paul Thek showed ‘The Tomb’ which in the ICA’s press release was described as ‘a tomb in which reposes a life-sized dead Hippie’. The exhibition included 76 artists incluidng Francis Bacon, Peter Blake, Frank Bowling, Patrick Caufield, Max Ernst, Leonor Fini, Alberto Giacometti, Richard Hamilton, Jan Haworth, David Hockney. The catalogue includes a list of lenders and catalogue of 107 works, a large number of which are illustrated..
Title: The Obsessive Image
Author: foreword by Roland Penrose and Robert Melville. With a text by Mario Amaya.
Publisher: Institute of Contemporary Arts London
Publication Date: 1968
Binding: Pictorial softcover
Pages: 83pp. Mostly images.
Condition: Acceptable. Moderate edge wear, shelf wear.
The Obsessive Image was the inaugural exhibition at the ICA’s current home on the Mall, having moved from its original location on Dover Street. The exhibition presented a survey of living artists, including a number of Americans, working with the image of the human figure. This was the first time the American sculptor George Segal showed work in Britain, and also the first screening in Europe of Andy Warhol’s six-hour-film ‘Sleep’ which ran non-stop for the duration of the show. Paul Thek showed ‘The Tomb’ which in the ICA’s press release was described as ‘a tomb in which reposes a life-sized dead Hippie’. The exhibition included 76 artists incluidng Francis Bacon, Peter Blake, Frank Bowling, Patrick Caufield, Max Ernst, Leonor Fini, Alberto Giacometti, Richard Hamilton, Jan Haworth, David Hockney. The catalogue includes a list of lenders and catalogue of 107 works, a large number of which are illustrated..
Title: The Obsessive Image
Author: foreword by Roland Penrose and Robert Melville. With a text by Mario Amaya.
Publisher: Institute of Contemporary Arts London
Publication Date: 1968
Binding: Pictorial softcover
Pages: 83pp. Mostly images.
Condition: Acceptable. Moderate edge wear, shelf wear.