Main entry:

Nead, Lynda, author.

Title & Author:

The tiger in the smoke : art and culture in post-war Britain / Lynda Nead.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2017.

Description:

vii, 407 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
"Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The tiger in the smoke -- Broken buildings and 'horrid empty spaces' -- To let in the sunlight -- Learning to think in colour -- 'Thirty thousand colour problems' -- Battersea, Whitechapel and the colours of culture -- Bill and Betty set up home -- An English Sunday afternoon -- Woman in a dressing gown.

Summary:

Taking an interdisciplinary approach that looks at film, television, and commercial advertisements as well as more traditional media such as painting, The Tiger in the Smoke provides an unprecedented analysis of the art and culture of post-war Britain. Art historian Lynda Nead presents fascinating insights into how the Great Fogs of the 1950s influenced the newfound fashion for atmospheric cinematic effects. She also discusses how the widespread use of color in advertisements was part of an increased ideological awareness of racial differences. Tracing the parallel ways that different media developed new methods of creating images that variously harkened back to Victorian ideals, agitated for modern innovations, or redefined domesticity, this book's broad purview gives a complete picture of how the visual culture of post-war Britain expressed the concerns of a society that was struggling to forge a new identity.

ISBN:

9780300214604 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
030021460X (hardcover ; alkaline paper)

Subject:

Art and society Great Britain History 20th century.
Domestic space Great Britain History 20th century.
Color in visual communication.
Visual perception.
Visual Perception
Art et société Grande-Bretagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Espace domestique Grande-Bretagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Couleur dans la communication visuelle.
Perception visuelle.
visual perception.
Art and society.
Domestic space.
Social conditions.
Great Britain Social conditions 20th century.
Grande-Bretagne Conditions sociales 20e siècle.
Great Britain.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, host institution, commissioning body.

Art and culture in post-war Britain

Holdings:

Location: Library main 299041
Call No.: BIB 245173
Status: Available