Too "artistic" for political history, too political for the history of art, the visual history of the campaign for women's suffrage in Britain has long been neglected. In this comprehensive and pathbreaking study, Lisa Tickner discusses and illustrates the suffragist use of spectacle—the design of banners, posters and postcards, the orchestration of mass demonstrations—in an unprecedented propaganda campaign.

The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign 1907-14

Tickner, Lisa

History

University of Chicago Press

In May 1914 the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London opened its exhibition of “Twentieth-Century Art.” The catalogue identified four main strands in modern painting but included a fifth group of Jewish artists, hung in the “Small Gallery.” In this illuminating book art historian Lisa Tickner takes a fresh look at the work of artists from each of these strands. In a series of innovative case studies, combining analysis with substantial new research, she examines the artists’ radical approaches to the process of painting and their resources in the defining conditions of modern life.Tickner discusses Walter Sickert’s Camden Town Murder and L’Affaire de Camden Town in the context of tabloid crime. Augustus John’s Lyric Fantasy is seen as rooted in, but also as qualifying, the Edwardian fascination with gypsies and tramping while memorializing John’s dead wife, Ida. The studies for Wyndham Lewis’s lost Kermesse are connected to popular dance and to his sense of the "wild body." Vanessa Bell’s Studland Beach is related to the emergence of the beach as a social and psychic space and to childhood summers in St. Ives drawn on by her sister, Virginia Woolf, in To the Lighthouse. And David Bomberg’s In the Hold, along with Mark Gertler’s Jewish Family, is shown to emerge from contemporary debates surrounding Jewish art and the possibility of a secular, urban, Yiddish culture. In an extended Afterword, Tickner considers the interplay between modernism and modernity in British art before 1914.

Modern Life & Modern Subjects: British Art in the Early Twentieth Century

Arts & Photography

Tickner, Professor Lisa

History & Criticism

Paul Mellon Centre

The Spectacle of Women

This book provides a detailed analysis of the production and circulation of the imagery used in the women's suffrage movement, including banners, posters and postcards. The suffragist use of spectacle as part of their propaganda campaign was without precedent. The author discusses the Artist's Suffrage League, the Suffrage Atelier and the contributions of artists such as Mary Lowndes, Sylvia Pankhurst and Duncan Grant and provides detailed analyses of the production and circulation of their work, the sources of its imagery and its relation to the propaganda of the burgeoning anti-suffrage campaign.

The spectacle of women: Imagery of the suffrage campaign, 1907-14

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Chatto&Windus

In May 1968, students occupied London’s Hornsey College of Art in a dispute over student union funds. This relatively minor issue soon expanded into a broad critique of Britain’s educational system. The one-day sit-in led to six weeks of intense debate, over 70 policy papers, and a prolonged confrontation with the local authorities. A special commission even conveyed the students’ demands to Parliament. Hornsey 1968 draws on previously unpublished archival material to present a full account of this seminal event.

Hornsey 1968: The Art School Revolution

World

Frances Lincoln

The painter and poet Rossetti was an exotic figure on the stage of Victorian Bohemian London, his life a sensational mix of romance, tragedy, rebellion and genius. Lisa Tickner's accessible text throws new light on the life and work of this key Victorian artist in a survey of his entire career. The inclusion of letters, poetry and photographs give a broader picture of Rossetti's creative life and character.

Tate British Artists: Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Individual Artists

Tate Publishing

This publication is devoted to Walter Sickert's remarkable group of paintings of female nudes produced in and around Camden Town between 1905 and 1912 and now considered to be among his most important and provocative works.

Walter Sickert - Camden Town Nudes

Wright, Barnaby

Baron, Wendy

Paul Holberton Publishing

<div>A groundbreaking and extensively researched account of the 1960s London art scene In the 1960s, London became a vibrant hub of artistic production. Postwar reconstruction, jet air travel, television arts programs, new color supplements, a generation of young artists, dealers, and curators, the influx of international film companies, the projection of "creative Britain" as a national brand--all nurtured and promoted the emergence of London as "a new capital of art." Extensively illustrated and researched, this book offers an unprecedented, rich account of the social field that constituted the lively London scene of the 1960s. In clear, fluent prose, Tickner presents an innovative sequence of critical case studies, each of which explores a particular institution or event in the cultural life of London between 1962 and 1968. The result is a kaleidoscopic view of an exuberant decade in the history of British art.</div>

London's New Scene: Art and Culture in the 1960s (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)

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