Visual Culture and Decolonisation in Britain
Published on 8. November 2006
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-7546-4002-8 (ISBN)
Description
"Visual Culture and Decolonisation in Britain" provides the first in-depth analysis of the place of visual representations within the process of decolonisation during the period 1945 to 1970. The chapters trace the way in which different visual genres - art, film, advertising, photography, news reports and ephemera - represented and contributed to the political and social struggles over Empire and decolonisation during the mid-twentieth century. The book examines both the direct visual representation of imperial retreat after 1945, as well as the reworkings of imperial and 'racial' ideologies within the context of a transformed imperialism. While the book engages with the dominant archive of artists, exhibitions, newsreels and films, it also explores the private images of the family album as well as examining the visual culture of anti-colonial resistance.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
8 colour illustrations, 67 b&w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7546-4002-8 (9780754640028)
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Persons
Simon Faulkner is Lecturer in the History of Art and Design at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Anandi Ramamurthy is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural History at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.
Content
Introduction, Simon Faulkner and Anandi Ramamurthy; 'Festering Britain': the 1951 Festival of Britain, decolonisation and the representation of the Commonwealth, Jo Littler; Images of industrialisation in Empire and Commonwealth during the shift to neo-colonialism; Anandi Ramamurthy; Late colonial exoticism: John Minton's pictures of Jamaica, 1950 - 52, Simon Faulkner; Frances Newton Souza and Aubrey Williams: entwined art histories at the end of Empire, Leon Wainwright; A journey through the imperial gaze: Birmingham's photographic collections and its Caribbean nexus, Sandra Courtman; Can Whisky come too?, Patricia Holland and Emma Sandon; There'll always be an England: representations of colonial wars and immigration, 1948 - 68, Wendy Webster; Casting a giant shadow: the appropriation of colonial imagery in three pro-Zionist films, Richard Farrow; Fragments in the history of the visual culture of anti-colonial struggle, Hakim Adi and Anandi Ramamurthy; Afterword: 'Ways of seeing', Bill Schwarz; Index.