Kindred of the Kibbo Kift - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kindred of the Kibbo Kift write by . This book was released on 2015. Kindred of the Kibbo Kift available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Designing Utopia
Designing Utopia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Designing Utopia write by Cathy Ross. This book was released on 2015-11-30. Designing Utopia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first detailed account of the remarkable British writer and artist John Hargrave (1894-1982) and his three creations: The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift, The Green Shirt Movement for Social Credit and The Social Credit Party of Great Britain. Combining art, politics and design to visually stunning effect, Hargrave and his followers created a maverick but uniquely English form of modernism, one which harked back to a mythical past but also looked forward to a futuristic Utopia when mankind would be freed from the tyranny of work and war. A product of his turbulent times, Hargrave believed in ritual, ceremony, symbology and the 'resolute imagination' of the creative individual as the keys to a better world.The book draws on the extensive visual archive of the Kibbo Kift, held at the Museum of London, comprising graphic designs, photographs, ceremonial objects, banners, costume, regalia, log books and archive material, much of which has not been seen in public since the 1920s and 1930s. The collection includes many striking photographs by Angus McBean, official 'Kin Photographer' in the late 1920s. Designing Utopia also touches on Hargrave's career as a writer. In his novels, as with his graphics, Hargrave's imagination drew from the fragmented modern world of mass culture, advertising and film he saw around him and re-cast its elements in ways that suited his convictions about social order.Hargrave and the Kibbo Kift have been under-explored by cultural historians. But their time has come. The story of the Kibbo Kift has strong resonances with twenty-first century debates about art, politics, individualism, anti-capitalism, nature and the environment. It is also a story about English youth adapting to a new century, new ideologies and a new sense of possibilities in a global world.
Being Modern
Being Modern - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Being Modern write by Robert Bud. This book was released on 2018-10-10. Being Modern available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the early decades of the twentieth century, engagement with science was commonly used as an emblem of modernity. This phenomenon is now attracting increasing attention in different historical specialties. Being Modern builds on this recent scholarly interest to explore engagement with science across culture from the end of the nineteenth century to approximately 1940. Addressing the breadth of cultural forms in Britain and the western world from the architecture of Le Corbusier to working class British science fiction, Being Modern paints a rich picture. Seventeen distinguished contributors from a range of fields including the cultural study of science and technology, art and architecture, English culture and literature examine the issues involved. The book will be a valuable resource for students, and a spur to scholars to further examination of culture as an interconnected web of which science is a critical part, and to supersede such tired formulations as 'Science and culture'.
Nudism in a Cold Climate
Nudism in a Cold Climate - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nudism in a Cold Climate write by Annebella Pollen. This book was released on 2021-10-26. Nudism in a Cold Climate available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This richly illustrated volume examines the idiosyncraticphenomenon of social nudism in mid-20th-century Britain, anisland nation fabled for its lack of sunshine and its reservedsocial attitudes.Structured across three interrelated phases, readers firstencounter the movement at its genesis in the 1920s,when nudism was synonymous with vegetarianism,intellectualism and utopianism. That nascent cultureproliferated in the postwar era, with a widening landscapeof amateur clubs and governing organizations alongsidehigh circulation publications and censorship-challengingphotographers. Finally, Annebella Pollen examines themovement's redefinition as naturism, its cultural battles andits struggle to survive amid shifts in sexual liberation in thepermissive 1960s.Unadorned bodies were the central campaigning tool ofBritish naturism's photographic propaganda. They drewattention to the cause and drove publication sales but theyalso attracted regular public opprobrium. Naturism's shiftingvisual culture thus provides a microcosmic view of Britishmoral, legal and aesthetic transformations in a period of rapidsocial change, revealing evolving perspectives on health andsex, gender and ethnicity, pleasure and power.
The Art of Camping
The Art of Camping - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Art of Camping write by Matthew De Abaitua. This book was released on 2012. The Art of Camping available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'The Art of Camping' is a witty and philosophical blend of 'how to', history and personal anecdotes - a must for every camper. Beautiful line illustrations, practical camping tips are included.
