British art in the nuclear age / edited by Catherine Jolivette.
Published / Created:
Burlington : Ashgate, 2014.
Physical Description:
xv, 275 pages : illustrations 25 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
'A kind of cold war feeling' 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 / Katherine Aspinall.
Subject Terms:
Art and popular culture -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. | Art and technology -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. | Art, British -- 20th century -- Themes, motives. | Technology -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. | Cold War -- Social aspects -- Great Britain.
Contributors:
Jolivette, Catherine, 1972- editor. | Jacobi, Carol, author. Kind of cold war feeling.