Title: So exotic, so homemade : Surrealism, Englishness and documentary photography /
Authors: Walker, Ian, 1952 May 15-
Publisher: Manchester University Press,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Surrealism England.; Documentary photography England History
Abstract: One of the key themes in this book is the relationship between the 'homely' and the 'exotic', in the innovative mix of poetry and ethnography in Mass-Observation for example, or the shadowed England constructed in the world of Bill Brandt.
Contents: List of figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Paul Nash -- the genius of the place; 2. Seaside Surrealism -- Nash in Swanage; 3. The Comic Sublime -- Eileen Agar at Ploumanac'h; 4. The Road is wider -- Penrose and Miler in the Balkans; 5. 'Subjective Cameras' -- Humphrey Jennings and Mass-Observation; 6. Up North -- Spender, Trevelyan and Brandt; 7. Revenge on culture -- the Surrealism of the Blitz; 8. The street and the beach; Bibliography; Index.