Output details
34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
University of Nottingham
Book title
American visual culture
Type
A - Authored book
DOI
-
Publisher of book
Berg
ISBN of book
9781845202163
Year of publication
2009
URL
-
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
-
Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
Yes
Double-weighted statement
This books represents a high degree of labour in terms of the breadth of research, the time it took to prepare (four years) and the length of the text (90,934 words). It covers American history since the mid-nineteenth century to the present-day, discussing complex themes and issues such as the Cold War, Lynching, Civil and Womens' Rights, Art and Appropriation, Criminality and Photography, and the rise of consumer culture. It also explores a variety of theoretical approaches, drawing on visual and textual sources that cover a broad range of media (advertising, illustration, art, moving image, ephemera).
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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