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Download or read book As Found written by Claude Lichtenstein and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Works of art were created in the England of the 50s and 60s which are of extraordniary topicality today. This applies particularly to the Independent Group which included artists, photographers as well as architects. Its members strove to achieve an authenticity close to the grass roots of life, to discover the essence of the everyday, to arouse a sensitivity to life in the raw as against a touched-up version of reality, to bring out both its hardships and its charm. The book is about architecture and art and photography. It seeks rather to show the unmediated impact and direct appeal of a refractory aesthetics.