Mass-Observation and Visual Culture av LucyD. Curzon

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<P>Mass-Observation and Visual Culture: Depicting Everyday Lives in Britain critically analyses the role that visual culture played in the early development of Mass-Observation, the innovative British anthropological research group founded in 1937. The group¿s production and use of painting, collage, photography, and other media illustrates not only the broad scope of Mass-Observation¿s efforts to document everyday life, but also, more specifically, the centrality of visual elements to its efforts at understanding national identity in the 1930s. </P><br/><br/><P></P><br/><br/><P>Although much interest has previously focused on Mass-Observation¿s use of written reports and opinion surveys, as well as diaries that were kept by hundreds of volunteer observers, this book is the first full-length study of the group¿s engagement with visual culture. Exploring the paintings of Graham Bell and William Coldstream; the photographs of Humphrey Spender; the paintings, collages, and photographs of