VISUAL CULTURE
Barry Curtis: Profile
Barry Curtis is Emeritus Professor of Visual Culture, Middlesex University. Recent publications include Visual Culture in Britain, in Architectural Design, and essays for Municipal Engineer The Unknown City, ed. Borden et. al. (2001); Here, There and Everywhere, ed. Blamey (2002); The Hieroglyphs of Space, ed. Neal Leach (2002); Fashion and Modernity, ed. Evans and Breward (2004) and This was the Future, ed. Stephens, Tate Gallery catalogue (2004). He is currently working on an essay on the design of dinosaurs; a book on Film and Architecture; and co-editing a series called Locations for Reaktion.
Constructed Landscapes
Study Day, Saturday 17 March 2007, 10am – 4pm, MoDA Lecture Theatre
London Underground’s posters from the 1920s and ‘30s offered their viewers very distinct representations of the urban, suburban and rural environment. Images of the city emphasised work, leisure and sophistication; the suburbs were portrayed as leafy and domesticated, whilst references to the ‘countryside’ focused on freedom and the exploration of unspoilt terrain. This Study Day will explore the ways in which urban, suburban and rural landscapes were constructed in a variety of cultural forms during the interwar period.
Speakers
- Oliver Green, Curator of London’s Transport Museum, How Transport Shaped Suburbia and Modern Art Sold It: Metro-land, The Tube and the Promotion of a New Lifestyle
- Dr. Bronwen Edwards, Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Hull, ’A Pleasant Little Shopping Expedition’: Making Fashionable London in 1930s Vogue
- David Heathcote, Freelance Architecture and Design Historian, Betjeman’s Shell Guides: In Search of a Perfect England
- Barry Curtis, Emeritus Professor of Visual Culture, Middlesex University, Suburbia and the Modern City
