Mass-observation and visual culture : depicting everyday lives in Britain
Curzon, Lucy D.2016
Book
'Mass-Observation and Visual Culture' 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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Author:
Curzon, Lucy D., author
Imprint:
London : Routledge, 2016.
Collation:
186 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm.
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Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781472436504 (hbk)
Dewey class:
306.4709410904309.1
Language:
English
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BRN:
2466474