Art And Masculinity In Postwar Britain Reconstructing Home Gregory Salter by Gregory Salter 9781350052727, 9781350052758, 1350052728, 1350052752 instant download after payment.

Following the decimation of the male population during the Second World War came a reconsideration of gender roles in British society. In this book, Gregory Salter traces how artists represented home and masculinities in the extended period of social and personal reconstruction after the war. Salter considers home as an unstable entity at this historical moment, imbued with the optimism and hopes of post-war recovery while continuing to resonate with the memories and traumas of wartime.
Artists examined in the book include John Bratby, Francis Bacon, Keith Vaughan, Francis Newton Souza, and Victor Pasmore. Case studies featured range from the nuclear family and the body, to the nation. Combined, they present an argument that we can conceive of post-war reconstruction as a temporally unstable, long-term phenomenon which placed conceptions of home and masculinity at the heart of its aims.
Art and Masculinity in Post-War Britain sheds new light on how the fluid concepts of society, nation and home interacted and influenced each other at this critical period in history and will be of interest to anyone studying art history, anthropology, sociology, history and cultural and heritage studies.