British Art in the Nuclear Age

Herausgeber: Jolivette, Catherine

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Rooted in the study of objects, this book addresses the role of art and visual culture in discourses surrounding nuclear science and technology, atomic power, and nuclear warfare in Cold War Britain. Far from insular in its concerns, this volume draws upon cross-cultural dialogues between British and European artists and the relationship between Britain and America to engage with an interdisciplinary art history that will also prove useful to researchers in a variety of fields including European history, politics, design history, anthropology, and media.

Produktdetails

• British Art: Histories and Interpretations since 1700
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 207mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781138548886
• ISBN-10: 113854888X
• Artikelnr.: 57040057

Autorenporträt

Catherine Jolivette is Associate Professor of Art & Design, Missouri State University, USA, and author of Landscape, Art and Identity in 1950s Britain.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Catherine Jolivette; 'A kind of cold war feeling' in British art
1945-1952
Carol Jacobi; Geometries of hope and fear: the iconography of atomic science and nuclear anxiety in the modern sculpture of World War and Cold War Britain
Robert Burstow; 'An imagined cataclysm becomes fact': British photojournalism and real and imagined nuclear war in Picture Post
Christoph Laucht; Representations of atomic power at the Festival of Britain
Catherine Jolivette; The genius loci of Cold War Britain: the metamorphic landscapes of Graham Sutherland
Peter Lanyon and Alan Reynolds
Fiona Gaskin; Cold War at home: John Bratby
the self and the nuclear threat
Gregory Salter; Covert resistance: Prunella Clough's Cold War 'urbscapes'
Catherine Spencer; The aesthetics of scientific authority in a nuclear age: Jacob Bronowski and Feliks Topolski
Kate Aspinall; Painting the end: British artists and the nuclear apocalypse
1945-1970
Simon Martin; Select bibliography; Index.