British Art in the Nuclear Age

Author:   Catherine Jolivette ,  Professor David Peters Corbett ,  Dr. Sarah Monks
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Edition:   New edition
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9781472412768


Pages:   312
Publication Date:   19 November 2014
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Catherine Jolivette ,  Professor David Peters Corbett ,  Dr. Sarah Monks
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.929kg
ISBN:  

9781472412768


ISBN 10:   1472412761
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   19 November 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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.

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'A wonderfully diverse and wide-ranging book that significantly increases our understanding of the complex role of art, artists, imagery and popular culture in the nuclear age.' Jonathan Hogg, University of Liverpool, UK 'I was deeply impressed by this book which opens up vivid and sometimes unsuspected contextual avenues of analysis for British post war art and culture. Where it is truly novel is in the real grasp on the materialities of the warfare state in their formative impact on pictorial and sculptural developments.' David Alan Mellor, University of Sussex, UK


'A wonderfully diverse and wide-ranging book that significantly increases our understanding of the complex role of art, artists, imagery and popular culture in the nuclear age.' Jonathan Hogg, University of Liverpool, UK 'I was deeply impressed by this book which opens up vivid and sometimes unsuspected contextual avenues of analysis for British post war art and culture. Where it is truly novel is in the real grasp on the materialities of the warfare state in their formative impact on pictorial and sculptural developments.' David Alan Mellor, University of Sussex, UK 'As a cross-disciplinary case study, the essay is a testament to the way one field can shed light upon another, perhaps most importantly by helping it to frame critical questions - in this case, the urgent questions about civilisation's hopes and fears that permeated the nuclear age and that this book, generally speaking, does not shy from.' Burlington Magazine


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

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