Recently added articles from Visual Culture in Britain:

'An Amazing Anthology of Modern Art': Place, Archetype and Identity in the Art of Colin Middleton

Jan 01, 2008; Coulter, Riann ... For over seventy years, from the outset of his career to the present day, the Northern Irish painter Colin Middleton (1910-83), has been both celebrated and condemned for his eclecticism. Varying from post-impressionist influences to surrealism and expressionism, Middleton's stylistic range has ...

The Man in the White Suit: New Textiles and the Social Fabric

Jan 01, 2008; Sargeant, Amy ... In his recollections of "The Fifties', The Angry Decade, the critic Kenneth Allsop presented a list of word-associations prompted by that phrase: Television and the TV 'celebrity', expresso bars, skiffle, the boom of the pop-singer, indoor plants, Samuel Beckett, The Threepenny Opera, ...

Onward Christian Spacemen: Dan Dare - Pilot of the Future as British Cultural History

Jan 01, 2008; Chapman, James ... The comic strip has rarely been afforded even the grudging scholarly interest shown towards other aspects of mass-produced visual culture such as popular film and television. In Britain, especially, research into the history of comics has tended to be the preserve of collectors and enthusiasts ...

The Discursivity of Print: Damien Hirst's Series The Last Supper (1999)

Jan 01, 2008; Pelzer-Montada, Ruth ... The focus of this essay is the suite of thirteen prints The Last Supper (1999) by the best-known British artist of the 19903, Damien Hirst, which was instigated and published by British print publisher Charles Booth Clibborn and his Paragon Press.1 This context for Hirst's engagement with print ...

Reassessing Nikolaus Pevsner

Jan 01, 2008; Johnson, Michael ... Reassessing Nikolaus Pevsner edited by Peter Draper, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004, pp.244. The remarkable career of Sir Nikolaus Pevsner has withstood steady and frequent challenges from successive generations of architectural historians during nearly a quarter of a century since his death ....

'When Will We Have Sleeping Logicians, Sleeping Philosophers?: Julian Trevelyan in Pursuit of a Super-Reality1

Jan 01, 2008; Jemison, Annette Joy ... The anthropological Surrealist collages, photographs and texts produced by Julian Trevelyan (1910-88) between 1937 and 1939 fall largely into two broad groups in terms of subject matter. The first collection presents his interpretation of the Surrealist aesthetic category of decline, during a ...

Alfred Gilbert's Aestheticism: Gilbert amongst Whistler, Wilde, Leighton, Pater and Burne-Jones

Jan 01, 2008; Droth, Martina ... Alfred Gilbert's Aestheticism: Gilbert amongst Whistler, Wilde, Leighton, Pater and Burne-Jones, by Jason Edwards, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006, pp.292 Jason Edwards' monograph on Alfred Gilbert is the latest in a small but growing wave of studies focusing on the still much neglected field ...

Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture

Jan 01, 2008; Kerrigan, Philip ... Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture by Jonathan Smith, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp-378 Jonathan Smith's book is a significant addition to the burgeoning historical investigation of scientific imagery and its relation to and influence on wider visual culture ....

Modern Sculpture Reader

Jan 01, 2008; Turner, Sarah V ... Modern Sculpture Reader edited by Jon Wood, David Hulks and Alex Potts, Leeds: Henry Moore Institute, 2007, pp.542 The history of sculpture has a rapidly expanding literature. Recently, numerous publications have explored the complex landscape of sculptural practice, particularly from ...