Bøger af Mark Rawlinson

Charles Sheeler was the poet of the machine age. Photographer of the Ford Motor Company and founder of the painting movement Precisionism, he is remembered as a promoter of - and apologist for - the industrialised capitalist ethic. This book argues that his true relationship to progress was negative, his 'precisionism' both skewed and imprecise.

Explores how visual culture has at once transformed and consolidated the image of the United States. This book presents both an analysis of the diversity of American visual media and a critical introduction to the study and interpretation of visual culture.

A brilliant novel . . . a savage satire on the distortions of the single and collective minds. New York Times Anthony Burgess has written what looks like a nasty little shocker, but is really that rare thing in English letters: a philosophical novel. Time"

Pat Barker is one of the leading British political and historical novelists of her generation. This introduction places her fiction in historical and theoretical contexts. Including a timeline of key dates and an interview with the author, Rawlinson establishes the cultural importance of her work and provides an overview of its critical reception.