Mass-Observation and visual culture: depicting everyday lives in Britain. Lucy D. Curzon

By:

Curzon, Lucy D

Contributor(s):

Corbett, David Peters ed

Language: English Series: British Art: Histories and Interpretations since 1700Publication details: Routledge 2017 OxonDescription: xii, 178pISBN:

9781472436504

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

759.06 CUR-M

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Text/Reserve Book	Library, SPAB L-1	Non Fiction	759.06 CUR-M (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	Rec. by Saurabh Tewari		010933

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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.

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