The Tiger in the Smoke

Art and Culture in Post-War Britain

Lynda Nead (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

416 Seiten

2017
Yale University Press (Verlag)
978-0-300-21460-4 (ISBN)

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Taking an interdisciplinary approach that looks at film, television, and commercial advertisements as well as more traditional media such as painting, The Tiger in the Smoke provides an unprecedented analysis of the art and culture of post-war Britain. Art historian Lynda Nead presents fascinating insights into how the Great Fogs of the 1950s influenced the newfound fashion for atmospheric cinematic effects. She also discusses how the widespread use of color in advertisements was part of an increased ideological awareness of racial differences. Tracing the parallel ways that different media developed new methods of creating images that variously harkened back to Victorian ideals, agitated for modern innovations, or redefined domesticity, this book’s broad purview gives a complete picture of how the visual culture of post-war Britain expressed the concerns of a society that was struggling to forge a new identity.

Published in association with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Lynda Nead is Pevsner Chair of History of Art at Birkbeck, University of London.

Erscheinungsdatum	10.10.2017
Zusatzinfo	190 color + b-w illus.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	191 x 254 mm
Gewicht	1542 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-300-21460-X / 030021460X
ISBN-13	978-0-300-21460-4 / 9780300214604
Zustand	Neuware