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Free Thinking: The Barbican, art and writing in 50s Britain

The Barbican, art and writing in 50s Britain

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Lisa Mullen & guests mark the 40th anniversary of the opening of London's Barbican centre

Lisa Mullen marks the anniversary of the Barbican. She's joined by art historian, Michael Peppiatt, literary scholar, Beryl Pong,  and architectural historian, Elain Harwood.

The Barbican marks its anniversary with an updating of the project Songs In The Key Of London on Sat 5 Mar 2022, Barbican Hall.
https://www.barbican.org.uk/our-story/our-archive/about-the-archive
Lisa Mullen talks to Elain Harwood, Senior Investigator with Historic England; Beryl Pong, Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow in English at the University of Sheffield and Michael Peppiatt, art historian, curator and writer.

Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain 1945-1965 runs from Thu 3 Mar—Sun 26 Jun 2022, at the Barbican Art Gallery.  A book to accompany the exhibition is published by Prestel. 

Historic England: Championing England's heritage: https://historicengland.org.uk/

Space, Hope and Brutalism, English architecture 1945-1975 by Elain Harwood (Yale University Press) is available now.

British Literature and Culture in Second World Wartime by Beryl Pong (Oxford University Press) is out now.

Michael Peppiat:  www.michaelpeppiatt.com/biography/

The Francis Bacon: Man and Beast exhibition is at the Royal Academy of Arts, London until 17 April, 2022: https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/francis-bacon

Producer: Jayne Egerton

Image: Foyers, Barbican Centre, London. Image credit: Max Colson

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