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Item Number: 133675
Title: British Art in the Nuclear Age
Author: Jolivette, Catherine (ed)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781472412768
Description: Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. 25cm., hardcover, 306pp., 16 color, 51 b&w illus.

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. (British Art : Histories and Interpretations Since 1700)

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