Last week I published a new essay exploring the links between the 1956 Whitechapel Gallery exhibitio

Last week I published a new essay exploring the links between the 1956 Whitechapel Gallery exhibition ‘This is Tomorrow’, Pop Art, Brutalism and the specualtive fiction of J.G Ballard. You can read all 3000 odd words of it here:

https://medium.com/@theo_inglis/yesterdays-tomorrow-is-not-today-jg-ballard-and-this-is-tomorrow-5f11674be4e8

The year 1956 can be seen as the birth of British Pop Art, in the Whitechapel Gallery exhibition This is Tomorrow, and the birth of J.G Ballard, not the man himself, rather the Ballardian author. This is Tomorrow opened its doors for one month on August 9th, and received almost one thousand visitors a day. Among these visitors was the twenty six year old Ballard who would, four months later, have his first two science fiction stories published in the December issues of the magazines ‘New Worlds’ and ‘Science Fantasy’…

There is also a design aspect to this project, including typography inspired by Edward Wright, used on some book covers for Ballard. But more on that soon.

My past blog posts on ‘This is Tomorrow’ can be found here:http://theoinglis.tumblr.com/tagged/this%20is%20tomorrow