Christine Lester

1950’s Coming Back – Art & Entertainment

• 1950’s arguably were the most creative decade

• Young people found their freedom

• expression in music, the arts & a voice

• Social historians say because of “money power”

• America influenced UK, nations closer together

Art, Painting & Sculpture

George Thomas Noszlopy

Hungarian – made great contribution

• Henry Moore

• OM, CH

• Barbara Hepworth

ARCHITECTURE & SCULPTURES:Buildings more likely to remain as a legacy

for the future than other forms of artistic

expression.

Take less time to fade in memory

Not so likely to disappear in technological

advance

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Giles Gilbert Scott

• John Lander Osborne, ADC to HM Queen, CBE, TD, FRIBA

• Architect to Birmingham Diocesan Board

• Most of Churches in Birmingham & West Midlands were designed & built by him, his father, or grandfather.

• Cecil Beaton

Photography

Lord Lichfield – Patrick Anson – 5th Earl (cousin to HM Queen

• David Bailey

• Ken Loach

• Sir Richard Attenborough (brother of Sir David Attenborough (naturalist)

Cinema

• David Lean

• Charlie Chaplin

• Alfred Hitchcock

• Boulting Brothers

• Stan Laurel

• http://youtu.be/N-qjc17KEsc

• Music

• Cliff Richard

• Tommy Steele

• The Shadows

• Composers/Musicians

• Sir Benjamin Britten

Sir Colin Davis

• Sir Malcolm Sargent

• Interesting to Note:

• The Artistic Section of British Life in the 1950’s seem more likely to be honoured by the State for Services to the Realm.

• The 1950’s saw emergence of pop music and later recognition by the Establishment, i.e. The Beatles, Andrew Lloyd Webber – had they lived earlier would recognition have come?

• This is only a mere glimpse of those who influenced in the 50’s, some had very long careers well into the end of the Century but this presentation is based on some of those who most influenced the 1950s, were at their zenith, and left a legacy.

• thanks to Wikipaedia – the collaborative reference point.

• Only a snapshot view of life in the 1950s.