Picturing England between the Wars: Word and Image 1918-1940
Autor Stuart Sillarsen Limba Engleză Hardback – 11 noi 2021
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780198828921
ISBN-10: 0198828926
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: Over 120 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 163 x 242 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0198828926
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: Over 120 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 163 x 242 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Recenzii
The study of visual print media occupies a niche at the intersection of art history, bibliography, and cultural studies, and requires expertise in literature as well as an understanding of technology. Stuart Sillars brings just the right combination of these to bear in his expertly researched work.
an impressive book that demonstrates how words and images were combined in interwar England to create a complex form of art, communication, instruction, and entertainment.
Stuart Sillars's Picturing England Between the Wars identifies new ways that word and image worked in relation to each other after the Great War, evoking together resonances beyond the capacity of either medium alone, thus giving expression to new and profound feelings in a battered England. Those feelings include not only a collective grief but also a rediscovered and sustaining sense of Englishness. The book shows how words combined with increasingly influential visual imagery to refashion for the middling class a sense of England's past that could be brought into continuity with its present and future, as revealed through the objects and media of everyday life. Sillars writes with deep learning and authority yet with an exemplary lucidity of thought and expression. Groundbreaking in conception, this book is also a pleasure to read.
Sillars has a rare ability to read print conventionssuch as the layouts, typography, image reproduction technologies, bindings, formats, and other featuresthat orchestrate the relations among texts and images on the page. Whether pointing out the appearance of a modern font, such as that designed by Edward Johnston and familiarized to a broad public through its use in the signage of the London Underground, or a drawing whose tonal value or particular line quality suggest an earlier era of illustration, Sillars shows the reader how the graphical qualities work as cultural objects of production and reception.
an impressive book that demonstrates how words and images were combined in interwar England to create a complex form of art, communication, instruction, and entertainment.
Stuart Sillars's Picturing England Between the Wars identifies new ways that word and image worked in relation to each other after the Great War, evoking together resonances beyond the capacity of either medium alone, thus giving expression to new and profound feelings in a battered England. Those feelings include not only a collective grief but also a rediscovered and sustaining sense of Englishness. The book shows how words combined with increasingly influential visual imagery to refashion for the middling class a sense of England's past that could be brought into continuity with its present and future, as revealed through the objects and media of everyday life. Sillars writes with deep learning and authority yet with an exemplary lucidity of thought and expression. Groundbreaking in conception, this book is also a pleasure to read.
Sillars has a rare ability to read print conventionssuch as the layouts, typography, image reproduction technologies, bindings, formats, and other featuresthat orchestrate the relations among texts and images on the page. Whether pointing out the appearance of a modern font, such as that designed by Edward Johnston and familiarized to a broad public through its use in the signage of the London Underground, or a drawing whose tonal value or particular line quality suggest an earlier era of illustration, Sillars shows the reader how the graphical qualities work as cultural objects of production and reception.
Notă biografică
Stuart Sillars read English and Music at the University of Exeter and after working in a series of further and higher education, including the Open University and the faculty of English at Cambridge, he was appointed Professor of English at Bergen where he teaches across a range of topics and levels. His MA degree was concerned with music and poetry and this developed his interest in relations between the arts. His most recent volume reflects an earlier and continuing interest in the social, intellectual, and cultural forms of the years between the two world wars.