The art of interruption : realism, photography, and the everyday John Roberts.
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TextPublication details: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 1998.Description: xii, 241 p. : ill.. (some col.) ; 24cmISBN: - 0719035619
- 770.1 ROB
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 770.1 ROB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002000383126 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This is the first monograph-length study that charts the coercive diplomacy of the administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford as practised against their British ally in order to persuade Edward Heath's government to follow a more amenable course throughout the 'Year of Europe' and to convince Harold Wilson's governments to lessen the severity of proposed defence cuts. Such diplomacy proved effective against Heath but rather less so against Wilson. It is argued that relations between the two sides were often strained, indeed, to the extent that the most 'special' elements of the relationship, that of intelligence and nuclear co-operation, were suspended. Yet, the relationship also witnessed considerable co-operation. This book offers new perspectives on US and UK policy towards British membership of the European Economic Community; demonstrates how US détente policies created strain in the 'special relationship'; reveals the temporary shutdown of US-UK intelligence and nuclear co-operation; provides new insights in US-UK defence co-operation, and re-evaluates the US-UK relationship throughout the IMF Crisis.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of figures and plates (p. vi)
- Acknowledgements (p. xii)
- Introduction: realism, contradiction and interpretation (p. 2)
- 1 Photography, the everyday and the Russian Revolution (p. 14)
- 2 Technique, technology and the everyday: German photographic culture in the 1920s and 1930s (p. 40)
- 3 The making of documentary: documentary after factography (p. 58)
- 4 The state, the everyday and the archive (p. 72)
- 5 Surrealism, photography and the everyday (p. 98)
- 6 Inside Modernism: American photography and post-war culture (p. 114)
- 7 John Berger and Jean Mohr: the return to communality (p. 128)
- 8 The rise of theory and the critique of realism: photography in Britain in the 1980s (p. 144)
- 9 Disfiguring the ideal: the body, photography and the everyday (p. 172)
- 10 Jeff Wall: the social pathology of everyday life (p. 184)
- 11 Jo Spence: photography, empowerment and the everyday (p. 199)
- 12 Digital imagery and the critique of realism (p. 216)
- Index (p. 229)