So Exotic, So Homemade - 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 So Exotic, So Homemade write by Ian Walker. This book was released on 2007. So Exotic, So Homemade available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the key themes in this book is the relationship between the 'homely' and the 'exotic', in the innovative mix of poetry and ethnography in Mass-Observation for example, or the shadowed England constructed in the world of Bill Brandt.
Mass-Observation and Visual Culture
Mass-Observation and Visual Culture - 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 Mass-Observation and Visual Culture write by LucyD. Curzon. This book was released on 2017-07-05. Mass-Observation and Visual Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Lee Miller, Photography, Surrealism and the Second World War
Lee Miller, Photography, Surrealism and the Second World War - 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 Lee Miller, Photography, Surrealism and the Second World War write by Lynn Hilditch. This book was released on 2018-01-23. Lee Miller, Photography, Surrealism and the Second World War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lee Miller (1907-1977) was an American-born Surrealist and war photographer who, through her role as a model for Vogue magazine, became the apprentice of Man Ray in Paris, and later one of the few women war correspondents to cover the Second World War from the frontline. Her comprehensive understanding of art enabled her to photograph vivid representations of Europe at war – the changing gender roles of women in war work, the destruction caused by enemy fire during the London Blitz, and the horrors of the concentration camps – that embraced and adapted the principles and methods of Surrealism. This book examines how Miller’s war photographs can be interpreted as ‘surreal documentary’ combining a surrealist sensibility with a need to inform. Each chapter contains a close analysis of specific photographs in a generally chronological study with a thematic focus, using comparisons with other photographers, documentary artists, and Surrealists, such as Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, George Rodger, Cecil Beaton, Bill Brandt, Henry Moore, Humphrey Jennings and Man Ray. In addition, Miller’s photographs are explored through André Breton’s theory of ‘convulsive beauty’ – his credence that any subject, no matter how horrible, may be interpreted as art – and his notion of the ‘marvellous’.
Mina Loy, Twentieth-Century Photography, and Contemporary Women Poets
Mina Loy, Twentieth-Century Photography, and Contemporary Women Poets - 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 Mina Loy, Twentieth-Century Photography, and Contemporary Women Poets write by Linda A. Kinnahan. This book was released on 2017-03-16. Mina Loy, Twentieth-Century Photography, and Contemporary Women Poets available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mina Loy, Twentieth-Century Photography, and Contemporary Women Poets- Front Cover -- Mina Loy, Twentieth-Century Photography, and Contemporary Women Poets -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Permissions -- Introduction -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Loy among the photographers: poetry, perception, and the camera -- Portraits and photographers -- Julien Levy and the modern photograph -- Islands in the Air and the figure of the photographer -- Vision and poetry -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Surrealism and the female body: economies of violence -- Surrealist contexts and contextualized Surrealism -- Surrealist cameras -- Loy and the female body of Surrealism -- The Surrealist mannequin -- Hans Bellmer, bodies, and war -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Portraits of the poor: the Bowery poems and the rise of documentary photography -- The 1930s and the rise of documentary -- Urban documentary and the visual rhetoric of poverty -- Portraits of the poor -- "Hot Cross Bum" and the tabloids: Sequence as portrait -- Notes -- Chapter 4: From patriotism to atrocity: the war poems and photojournalism -- Patriotism and the poetics of the mural photo-exhibit -- The rise of photojournalism -- The female gaze and the gendered body -- Atrocity and the female body -- Photographing the bomb -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Gendering the camera: Kathleen Fraser and Caroline Bergvall -- Kathleen Fraser and visual reassembly: "[T]he screen was carried inside her"--Caroline Bergvall's rearticulated bodies: Photography and the graphic page -- Coda: Looking back to Loy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Landscape and Subjectivity in the Work of Patrick Keiller, W. G. Sebald, and Iain Sinclair
Landscape and Subjectivity in the Work of Patrick Keiller, W. G. Sebald, and Iain Sinclair - 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 Landscape and Subjectivity in the Work of Patrick Keiller, W. G. Sebald, and Iain Sinclair write by David Anderson. This book was released on 2020-06-29. Landscape and Subjectivity in the Work of Patrick Keiller, W. G. Sebald, and Iain Sinclair available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book situates the film-maker Patrick Keiller alongside the writers W.G. Sebald and Iain Sinclair as the three leading voices in 'English psychogeography', offering new insights to key works including London, The Rings of Saturn, and Lights Out for the Territory. Excavating social and political contexts while also providing plentiful close analysis, it examines the cultivation of a distinctive 'affective' mode or sensibility especially attuned to the cultural anxieties of the twentieth century's closing decades. Landscape and Subjectivity explores motifs including essayism, the reconciliation of creativity with market forces, and the foregrounding of an often agonised or melancholic. It asks whether the work can, collectively, be seen to constitute a 'critical theory of contemporary space' and suggests that Keiller, Sebald, and Sinclair's contributions represent a highly significant moment in English culture's engagement with landscape, environment, and itself. The book's analyses are fuelled by archival and topographical research and are responsive to various interdisciplinary contexts, including the tradition of the 'English Journey', the set of ideas associated with the 'spatial turn', critical theory, the so-called 'heritage debate', and more recent theorisation of the 'anthropocene'.
