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- Alison Smithson’s scrapbook
- Date
- 1845–2002
- Description
- This scrapbook is a visual catalogue of architect and Independent Group member Alison Smithson’s theoretical thinking. The base of the work is Charles Knight’s 'Old England: A Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Municipal, Baronial, and Popular Antiquities' (1845) to which, from the 1940s until her death in 1993, Alison inserted and pasted images taken from magazines, packaging, brochures, books and postcards – a use of found objects in keeping with one of the central themes of the Independent Group’s work.
- Format
- Bound volume - scrapbook
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented by the Smithson family 2023
- Reference
- TGA 20245/1
Archive context
- Alison Smithson’s scrapbook TGA 20245 (1)
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- Alison Smithson’s scrapbook TGA 20245/1