Add to ORKGDiscusses visual art in postwar Britain, in relation to contrasting and conflicting ideas respecting collective life and prospects for the future of society and the nation: as between the collectivist policies of the Attlee government and the Conservative project of a 'property-owning democracy; between the critical values of John Berger and those of Lawrence Alloway. Considers work by the film-maker John Krish and the artists Derrick Greaves, William Coldstream, Nigel Henderson, Francis Bacon, Leon Kossoff and Joan Eardley
During Winston Churchill’s long career he painted hundreds of landscapes which have been viewed as p...
© 2013 Dr. Jan FriedlAlthough the 1950s remain in the collective psyche as a distinct period of dull...
The Festival of Britain in 1951 transformed the way people saw their war-ravaged nation. Giving Brit...
The culture of the 1950s in Britain has routinely been cast as a period of dogged realism. Yet the p...
From the 1920s until a decade after the Second World War, British municipalities not only controlled...
In the early 1950s, British culture was dominated by welfare-state visions of urban reconstruction. ...
© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. At its peak in the mid-1930s, the so...
The postwar years witnessed the election of a Labour government in 1945 and, under its aegis, the es...
Newsreel footage of VE-Day celebrations; commentary says that in "the new Britain" everyone was to h...
This thesis argues for the value of attending to artists’ printmaking in Britain between 1945 and 19...
This article responds to the Brexit vote and forms the first of what is now a series of articles wri...
This dissertation brings together artists living and working in the East End of London since World W...
The 1951 Festival of Britain was conceived in the immediate post-war period--a period of housing sho...
Photographic work from the series "Rays a Laugh' was exhibited in the exhibition 'An Ideal for Livin...
Focusing on the interdisciplinary context of the Independent Group (1952–55, IG from now), this thes...
During Winston Churchill’s long career he painted hundreds of landscapes which have been viewed as p...
© 2013 Dr. Jan FriedlAlthough the 1950s remain in the collective psyche as a distinct period of dull...
The Festival of Britain in 1951 transformed the way people saw their war-ravaged nation. Giving Brit...
The culture of the 1950s in Britain has routinely been cast as a period of dogged realism. Yet the p...
From the 1920s until a decade after the Second World War, British municipalities not only controlled...
In the early 1950s, British culture was dominated by welfare-state visions of urban reconstruction. ...
© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. At its peak in the mid-1930s, the so...
The postwar years witnessed the election of a Labour government in 1945 and, under its aegis, the es...
Newsreel footage of VE-Day celebrations; commentary says that in "the new Britain" everyone was to h...
This thesis argues for the value of attending to artists’ printmaking in Britain between 1945 and 19...
This article responds to the Brexit vote and forms the first of what is now a series of articles wri...
This dissertation brings together artists living and working in the East End of London since World W...
The 1951 Festival of Britain was conceived in the immediate post-war period--a period of housing sho...
Photographic work from the series "Rays a Laugh' was exhibited in the exhibition 'An Ideal for Livin...
Focusing on the interdisciplinary context of the Independent Group (1952–55, IG from now), this thes...
During Winston Churchill’s long career he painted hundreds of landscapes which have been viewed as p...
© 2013 Dr. Jan FriedlAlthough the 1950s remain in the collective psyche as a distinct period of dull...
The Festival of Britain in 1951 transformed the way people saw their war-ravaged nation. Giving Brit...