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

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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 document everyday life, but also, more specifically, the centrality of visual elements to its efforts at understanding national identity in the 1930s.





Although much interest has previously focused on Mass-Observation’s use of written reports and opinion surveys, as well as diaries that were kept by hundreds of volunteer observers, this book is the first full-length study of the group’s engagement with visual culture. Exploring the paintings of Graham Bell and William Coldstream; the photographs of Humphrey Spender; the paintings, collages, and photographs of Julian Trevelyan; and Humphrey Spender’s photographs and widely recognized ‘Mass-Observation film’, Spare Time, among other sources, Mass-Observation and Visual Culture: Depicting Everyday Lives in Britain positions these works as key sources of information with regard to illuminating the complex character of British identity during the Depression era.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
196
ISBN-13:
9781032179377
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1032179376
Udg. Dato:
30 sep 2021
Længde:
15mm
Bredde:
245mm
Højde:
174mm
Forlag:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oplagsdato:
30 sep 2021
Forfatter(e):
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