Lucy D. Curzon

Mass-Observation and Visual Culture

Depicting Everyday Lives in Britain

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Mass-Observation and Visual Culture: Depicting Everyday Lives in Britain explores how visual culture â including painting, collage, film, and photography â 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

Produktdetails

• British Art: Histories and Interpretations since 1700
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 174mm x 245mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 362g
• ISBN-13: 9781032179377
• ISBN-10: 1032179376
• Artikelnr.: 62573983

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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