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

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

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

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

Product details

• Authors: Lucy D. Curzon, Lucyd. Curzon, Curzon Lucy D.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781032179377
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3217937-7
• No. of pages: 196
• Series: British Art: Histories and Interpretations since 1700
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; 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)