Mass-Observation and Visual Culture: Depicting Everyday Lives in Britain

ISBN-13: 9781032179377 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 196 str.

Lucy D. Curzon

Opis

Mass-Observation and Visual Culture: Depicting Everyday Lives in Britain explores how visual culture – including painting, collage, film, and photography – was used by Mass-Observation in the late 1930s to understand, document, and ultimately complicate ideas of national identity during a particularly turbulent period of British

Recenzje

Winner of the Historians of British Art Book Prize fora single-authored book with a subject after 1800!

Spis treści

Contents

　

　

　

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

　

Introduction: Unprofessional Painting: Mass-Observation and Visual Culture

　

1. Another Place in Time: Humphrey Spender’s Northern Photographs














2. Julian Trevelyan: ‘Jekyll and Hyde’














3. The Euston Road in Worktown











4. May the Twelfth and Spare Time

Conclusion: ‘Signs that Say What You Want Them to Say’: Mass-Observation in Contemporary Contexts

　

Bibliography

O autorze

Lucy Curzon holds a PhD in Visual Culture Studies and is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Alabama. She has previously published work on contemporary portrait painting, as well as on the Ashington Group and Humphrey Spender.