The art of brutalism: rescuing hope from catastrophe in 1950s Britain
- Submitting institution
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University of Sussex
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 185339_69444
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- ISBN
- 9780300222746
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The Art of Brutalism (85,000-words) took a decade to produce (work began in 2006). In 2012-13 an AHRC research fellowship allowed for an intensive period of research and writing. Archival research was conducted at the Tate Archives, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, the National Library of Scotland and various collections of private papers. Picture research and permission gathering for 150 images was carried out in 2016. The book argues that a distinct aesthetic form emerges in postwar Britain that articulates a structure of feeling of ‘haunted optimism’ that resonates with larger cultural and social feelings of the period.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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