Picturing England Between the Wars: Word and Image 1918-1940

ISBN-13: 9780198828921 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 288 str.

Stuart Sillars

Recenzje

Sillars has a rare ability to read print conventionssuch as the layouts, typography, image reproduction technologies, bindings, formats, and other featuresthat orchestrate the relations among texts and images on the page. Whether pointing out the appearance of a modern font, such as that designed by Edward Johnston and familiarized to a broad public through its use in the signage of the London Underground, or a drawing whose tonal value or particular line quality suggest an earlier era of illustration, Sillars shows the reader how the graphical qualities work as cultural objects of production and reception.

O autorze

Stuart Sillars read English and Music at the University of Exeter and after working in a series of further and higher education, including the Open University and the faculty of English at Cambridge, he was appointed Professor of English at Bergen where he teaches across a range of topics and levels. His MA degree was concerned with music and poetry and this developed his interest in relations between the arts. His most recent volume reflects an earlier and continuing interest in the social, intellectual, and cultural forms of the years between the two world wars.