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xii, 277 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
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British art and visual culture since 1750, new readings |
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British art and visual culture since 1750, new readings.
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| Contents |
'Festering Britain' : the 1951 Festival of Britain, decolonisation and the representation of the commonwealth / Jo Littler -- Images of industrialisation in empire and commonwealth during the shift to neo-colonialism / Anandi Ramamurthy -- Late colonial exoticism : John Minton's pictures of Jamaica, 1950-1952 / Simon Faulkner -- Francis Newton Souza and Aubrey Williams : entwined art histories at the end of empire / Leon Wainwright -- A journey through the imperial gaze : Birmingham's photographic collections and its Caribbean nexus / Sandra Courtman -- 'Can Whiskey come too?' : records of family and friendship in 1960s Malawi / Patricia Holland and Emma Sandon -- 'There'll always be an England' : representations of colonial wars and immigration, 1948-1968 / Wendy Webster -- Casting a giant shadow : the appropriation of colonial imagery in three pro-Zionist films / Richard Farrow -- Fragments in the history of the visual culture of anti-colonial struggle / Hakim Adi and Anandi Ramamurthy -- Afterword : 'Ways of seeing' / Bill Schwarz |
| Summary |
"Visual Culture and Decolonisation in Britain provides the first in-depth analysis of the place of visual representations within the process of decolonisation during the period 1945 to 1970. The chapters trace the way in which different visual genres - art, film, advertising, photography, news reports and ephemera - represented and contributed to the political and social struggles over Empire and decolonisation during the mid-twentieth century. The book examines both the direct visual representation of imperial retreat after 1945 as well as the reworkings of imperial and 'racial' ideologies within the context of a transformed imperialism. While the book engages with the dominant archive of artists, exhibitions, newsreels and films, it also explores the private images of the family album as well as examining the visual culture of anti-colonial resistance."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Art, British -- 20th century.
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Arts and society -- Great Britain.
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Arts, British -- 20th century.
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Decolonization in art -- Great Britain.
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Decolonization -- Great Britain.
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History in art.
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Decolonisation -- Great Britain
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Imperialism in art.
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79023147 -- In art.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002011412
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| Author |
Faulkner, Simon, 1967-
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Ramamurthy, Anandi.
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| LC no. |
2005037730 |
| ISBN |
0754640027 |
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9780754640028 |
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