Description
| Product ID: | 9780300214604 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | The Tiger in the Smoke |
| Subtitle: | Art and Culture in Post-War Britain |
| Authors: | Author: Lynda Nead |
| Page Count: | 416 |
| Subjects: | History of art, Art & design styles: from c 1960, European history, Social and cultural history, British & Irish history, Social & cultural history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1945 to c 1960 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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 |
| Imprint Name: | Yale University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Yale University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-10-24 |