本书探讨了Mod亚文化对20世纪60年代伦敦艺术界的关键人物的巨大影响。

20世纪50年代末伦敦的 "摩斯族"在品味和风格上结下了不解之缘，他们在意大利风格的西装、整洁的发型、意式咖啡吧、Vespa踏板车和最新的美国爵士乐等方面相互认同。在这本开创性的书中，**艺术史学家托马斯•克劳认为，摩斯族的形象所产生的影响超越了其假定的社会界限，体现了战后大都市的兴奋和复杂性。Crow研究了20世纪60年代伦敦艺术界的关键人物的作品，包括Robyn Denny、David Hockney、Pauline Boty、Bridget Riley和Bruce McLean，他们分享并提升了这种新的和年轻的都市生活的各个方面。国际反文化的胜利到来，迫使年轻的"摩斯族"和成熟的艺术家们以新颖的、揭示性的形式重新评估和组合。理解伦敦Mod带来了对情境主义、社会艺术史和文化研究遗产的必要的、最新的推测。

An investigation of the outsized influence of the Mod subculture on key figures of the 1960s London art scene

Bonding over matters of taste and style, the ‘Mods’ of late 1950s London recognised in one another shared affinities for Italian-

style suits, tidy haircuts, espresso bars, Vespa scooters and the latest American jazz. In this groundbreaking book, leading art historian Thomas Crow argues that the figure of the Mod exerted an influence beyond its assumed social boundaries by exemplifying the postwar metropolis in all of its excitement and complexity. Crow examines the works of key figures in the London art scene of the 1960s, including Robyn Denny, David Hockney, Pauline Boty, Bridget Riley and Bruce McLean, who shared and heightened aspects of this new and youthful urbanity. The triumphant arrival of the international counterculture forced both young Mods and established artists to reassess and regroup in novel, revealing formations. Understanding the London Mod brings with it a needed, up-to-date reckoning with the legacies of Situationism, Social Art History and Cultural Studies.