Chapter 9

Choose an example of a particular artist/architect or movement in British art or architecture, and research it online for an essay or PowerPoint presentation. Explain why the subject of your work is significant, and why it is interesting to you personally.
Choose either an individual art work, an art exhibition or a building with which you are familiar, and write a review of it for a magazine. Say what you like/dislike about it and why.
What pictures did your parents have on the wall when you were a child? What did they represent? Would you display them in your home now? Why/why not?
Do you think art should confront and shock, or should it comfort and reassure?
Which buildings that you know in your town/city would you like to demolish, and why?
In what ways do you think environmental design can affect people’s behaviour?
Is the general public too concerned with protecting the architectural past?
Choose another country with which you are familiar to compare and contrast the ways in which architecture has changed in recent years. What inﬂuences can you identify? Do architects build what people want and like? Think about residential accommodation, public buildings and cultural/leisure facilities, their size and style.
Compare and contrast the work of a British architect or artist with one from another country. What similarities and differences can you see? Which do you prefer and why?

Books

Banksy (2006) Wall and Piece, London: Century.

British Art in the Twentieth Century: The Modernist Movement (1987), London: Royal Academy of Arts.

Chambers, E. (2014) Black Artists in British Art: A History from 1950 to the Present, London: I.B. Tauris

Clement, A. (2011) Brutalism: Post-War British Architecture,Ramsbury: Crowood Press.

Cocroft, W. and Thomas, R. (2005) Cold War: Building for Nuclear Confrontation 1946–89, London: English Heritage Publications.

Collings, M. (1997) Blimey, Cambridge: 21.

Durant, D. (2000) Handbook of British Architectural Styles, London: Barrie & Jenkins.

Glancey, J. (1991) New British Architecture, London: Thames & Hudson.

Greig, G. (2015) Breakfast with Lucian, London: Vintage.

Hammer, M. (2013) Francis Bacon, London: Phaidon Press.

Hanley, L. (2012) Estates: an Intimate History, Cambridge: Granta Books.

HRH, The Prince of Wales (1989) A Vision of Britain: A Personal View of Architecture, London:

Doubleday.

Harwood, E. (2003) England: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings, London: Batsford.

Hayes, J. (1991) The Portrait in British Art, London: National Portrait Gallery.

Hughes, R. (1991) The Shock of the New: Art and the Century of Change, London: Thames & Hudson.

Hutchinson, M. (1989) The Prince of Wales: Right or Wrong? An Architect Replies, London: Faber and Faber.

Jencks, C. (1988) The Prince, the Architects and New Wave Architecture, London: Rizzoli International.

Ket, A. (2014) Planet Banksy: The Man, His Work and the Movement He Inspired, London: Michael O’Mara.

Kent, S. (2003) Shark Infested Waters: The Saatchi Collection of British Art in the 90s, London: Philip Wilson Publishers.

Long, K. (2004) New London Interiors, London: Merrell Publishers.

Lucie-Smith, E. (1988) The New British Painting, Oxford: Phaidon.

Moffat, N. (1995) The Best of British Architecture 1980–2000, London: E & FN Spon.

Powell, K. (2004) New London Architecture, London: Merrell.

Powers, A. and von Sternberg, M. (2007) Modern: The Modern Movement in Britain, London: Merrell

Rosenthal, N. (1998) Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, London: Thames & Hudson.

Silverstone, R. (ed.) (1996) Visions of Suburbia, London: Routledge.

Spalding, F. (1986) British Art Since 1900, London: Thames & Hudson.

The Vigorous Imagination: New Scottish Art (1987) Edinburgh: Scottish Gallery of Modern Art.

Walker, D. (1982) The Architecture and Planning of Milton Keynes, London: Architectural Press.

Journals

Of several journals dedicated to modern British art, Art Monthly is the oldest surviving periodical. It is particularly strong on young British art and is intelligent, witty and up to date. The Art Review also provides commentary on contemporary art. The British Art Journal, British Art Studies and the British Journal of Aesthetics are all available online and provide comment and articles of interest and research into modern British art.

The Architectural Review was started in 1896 and is the leading British architecture magazine. It appears monthly and has contributions by prominent British architects.

The Architects’ Journal covers topics of current importance, carries news and reviews, and pays attention to conservation issues. It appears weekly.

Blueprint appears monthly and provides criticism, news and features on design and architecture for both professionals and the interested non-specialist.

Listed buildings

Details of each building listed by English Heritage can be found in some 2,000 volumes. They are now available on a computerised database and can be consulted at the ofﬁces of the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, in Swindon and London.

For programmes on varies aspects of British architecture, art and other aspects of British culture, see numerous series by the critic Jonathan Meades:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL2qlV5RtGMEGwSjJTNUWDQ