Art and Masculinity in Post-War Britain

<p>In this book Gregory Salter traces how artists represented home and masculinities in the period of social and personal reconstruction after the Second World War in Britain. Salter considers home as an unstable entity at this historical moment imbued with the optimism and hopes of post-war recovery while continuing to resonate with the memories and traumas of wartime. Artists examined in the book include John Bratby Francis Bacon Keith Vaughan Francis Newton Souza and Victor Pasmore. Case studies featured range from the nuclear family and the body to the nation. Combined they present an argument that art enables an understanding of post-war reconstruction as a temporally unstable long-term phenomenon which placed conceptions of home and masculinity at the heart of its aims. <em>Art and Masculinity in Post-War Britain</em> sheds new light on how the fluid concepts of society nation masculinity and home interacted and influenced each other at this critical period in history and will be of interest to anyone studying art history anthropology sociology history and cultural and heritage studies.</p>