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

Summary

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 history.

Product details

• Authors: Lucy D. Curzon, Lucyd. Curzon, Curzon Lucy D.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.11.2016
• EAN: 9781472436504
• ISBN: 978-1-4724-3650-4
• No. of pages: 182
• Series: British Art: Histories and Interpretations since 1700
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Theory of art, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, ART / Criticism & Theory, ART / European, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), History of Art, United Kingdom, Great Britain, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Social and cultural history, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)