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Women in Design

University Room: Omid & Gisel Kordestani Rooftop Conference Center (Q-801)
Tuesday, November 15, 2022 - 18:00 to 20:00

"Women in Design"
Professor Anne Massey
University for the Creative Arts

Anne Massey is best known for her work on the Independent Group and post-war British culture, including the groundbreaking The Independent Group: Modernism and Mass Culture in Britain, 1945-59 (MUP 1995), based on her PhD. This was followed by Out of the Ivory Tower: The Independent Group and Popular Culture (MUP 2013). She wrote the definitive chronicle of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, ICA (ICA 2014) and a biography of its first and only female Director, Dorothy Morland: Making ICA History (LUP 2020). She co-edited Pop Art and Design (Bloomsbury 2017) with Alex Seago and co-curated Pioneers of Pop at the Hatton Gallery, Newcastle in 2017. Prof. Massey will be speaking at AUP about her new book, Women in Design (Thames & Hudson, 2022).