Ben Highmore is professor of cultural studies and a Leverhulme Major Research Fellow at the University of Sussex.
"unusually thought-provoking, and highly recommended." —
Timothy Brittain-Catlin, C20 Magazine
"By the end of the book, readers will have gained a complex sense
of the historical diversity of brutalist visual culture, having
moved well beyond the controversial legacy of postwar social
housing." — Giulia Smith, Oxford Art Journal
"[a] magnificent and handsomely illustrated history" — Conor
McCafferty, LSE Review of Books blog
"This is a swashbuckling book and its author […] approaches the
subject […] in a breezily engaging style." — Anne Massey, The
Burlington Magazine
“Substantiated by documentary evidence, sketches and pop culture
tidbits, the tome offers an engaging visually rewarding experience
that rests on a solid foundation of art history, which helps to
thoroughly understand artistic milieus and what informed them.” —
Scene Point Blank
“The Art of Brutalism is an important publication in terms of both
the knowledge of post-war British culture that they expand, and the
‘art-historical’ methods they employ.”—Sam Gathercole, Art
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