1st Edition
Mass-Observation and Visual Culture Depicting Everyday Lives in Britain
By Lucy D. Curzon
Copyright 2017
196 Pages
8 Color & 21 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
194 Pages
8 Color & 21 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
Mass-Observation and Visual Culture: Depicting Everyday Lives in Britain critically analyses the role that visual culture played in the early development of Mass-Observation, the innovative British anthropological research group founded in 1937. The group’s production and use of painting, collage, photography, and other media illustrates not only the broad scope of Mass-Observation’s efforts to... Read more
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Unprofessional Painting: Mass-Observation and Visual Culture
- Another Place in Time: Humphrey Spender’s Northern Photographs
- Julian Trevelyan: ‘Jekyll and Hyde’
- The Euston Road in Worktown
- May the Twelfth and Spare Time
Conclusion: ‘Signs that Say What You Want Them to Say’: Mass-Observation in Contemporary Contexts
Bibliography
Biography
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.
Winner of the Historians of British Art Book Prize for a single-authored book with a subject after 1800!
