Visual Culture and Decolonisation in Britain

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Visual Culture and Decolonisation in Britain is written by Anandi Ramamurthy and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0429685599 (ISBN 10) and 9780429685590 (ISBN 13).

First published in 2006, this volume provides the first in-depth analysis of the place of visual representations within the process of decolonisation during the period 1945 to 1970. The chapters trace the way in which different visual genres – art, film, advertising, photography, news reports and ephemera – represented and contributed to the political and social struggles over Empire and decolonisation during the mid-Twentieth century. The book examines both the direct visual representation of imperial retreat after 1945 as well as the reworkings of imperial and ‘racial’ ideologies within the context of a transformed imperialism. While the book engages with the dominant archive of artists, exhibitions, newsreels and films, it also explores the private images of the family album as well as examining the visual culture of anti-colonial resistance.