This book investigates and problematizes the long-held belief that addiction is legible from the body, thus positioning visual images as unreliable sources in attempts to identify alcoholics and drug addicts. Examining paintings, graphic satire, photographs, advertisements and architectural sites, Skelly explores such issues as ongoing anxieties about maternal drinking; the punishment and confinement of addicted individuals; the mobility of female alcoholics through the streets and spaces of nineteenth-century London; and soldiers' use of addictive substances such as cocaine and tobacco to cope with traumatic memories following the First World War.…mehr
This book investigates and problematizes the long-held belief that addiction is legible from the body, thus positioning visual images as unreliable sources in attempts to identify alcoholics and drug addicts. Examining paintings, graphic satire, photographs, advertisements and architectural sites, Skelly explores such issues as ongoing anxieties about maternal drinking; the punishment and confinement of addicted individuals; the mobility of female alcoholics through the streets and spaces of nineteenth-century London; and soldiers' use of addictive substances such as cocaine and tobacco to cope with traumatic memories following the First World War.
Julia Skelly is an Affiliate Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. She is the editor of The Uses of Excess in Visual and Material Culture, 1600-2010.
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Contents: Introduction: the visual politics of addiction Wasted mothers: reading William Hogarth's Gin Lane From graphic satire to temperance art: George Cruikshank's Addiction to Sobriety Addictive architecture: the Crystal palace, gin palaces and women's consumption Closeting addiction: confinement, punishment, concealment Advertising masculine vulnerability: Cocaine and cigarettes after the First World War Conclusion. Bibliography Index.
Contents: Introduction: the visual politics of addiction Wasted mothers: reading William Hogarth's Gin Lane From graphic satire to temperance art: George Cruikshank's Addiction to Sobriety Addictive architecture: the Crystal palace, gin palaces and women's consumption Closeting addiction: confinement, punishment, concealment Advertising masculine vulnerability: Cocaine and cigarettes after the First World War Conclusion. Bibliography Index.
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