UPPERCASE 4

Theo Crosby [Designer and Editor]

5.5 x 7 perfect-bound edition nicely designed by Crosby and printed via letterpress on both coated and newsprint stocks. Five issues of Uppercase were published between 1958 to 1960. Issue 4 is devoted to the painting and sculpture of William Turnbull.

Contents:

• Introduction
• William Turnbull: Painter Sculptor
• Patrick George: Painting What You Can See From A Single Viewpoint

William Turnbull (b.1922) was a close contemporary of Eduardo Paolozzi. Together with Richard Hamilton and the architect Sir Colin St John Wilson, he was a member of groundbreaking Independent group, which he joined in 1952. This, in turn, sprang out of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), which developed at that time as the leading forum for contemporary art and design in Britain. John Russell claimed (in Private View, 1965) that, "In any history of British art since the war, William Turnbull would earn a place on several counts, as painter, as sculptor, as teacher, as ideas man to more than one generation of students."

Throughout the 1950s, Theo Crosby actively promoted the relationship between fine arts and the popular arts and the impact of mass communication and information on architecture. As the technical editor of Architectural Design, Crosby organized the "This is Tomorrow" exhibition (1956) as a collaborative effort between architects, painters, and sculptors. Reviewing the exhibition for AD, Crosby proclaimed this is merely a beginning: "Our environment is a mess because most people have eyes that do not see; they do not feel the need for visual organization. The exhibition is evidence of attempts towards a new sort of order, a way towards that integration of the arts that must come if our culture is not merely to survive, but come truly to life."

The collaborative spirit of "This is Tomorrow" was carried forward into the 1960s with Crosbyıs editorial direction of Uppercase.

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