| Description |
1 online resource (200 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Visual Politics of Addiction; Continuism and Addiction Theory; Word and Image: 'Reading' the Addicted Body; Wasted Looks as Viewing Practice; The Visual Politics of Addiction; Endnotes; 1 Wasted Mothers: Reading William Hogarth's Gin Lane; Graphic Satire, Women and Alcohol; The Addicted Mother as Monstrous; Wasted (M)others; Drunkenness as Resistance?; 'Mother's Folly': Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Infant Mortality; Blame and Shame; Conclusion; Endnotes |
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2 From Graphic Satire to Temperance Art: George Cruikshank's Addiction to SobrietyBiographies and Narratives; Drinking and Drawing; The Bottle; The Masterpiece that was Not One; Wasted Talent and Gutter Girls; The Artist-Scholar and Male Histrionics; Conclusion; Endnotes; 3 Addictive Architecture: The Crystal Palace, Gin Palaces and Women's Consumption; 'Shall it be the Gin Palace or the Crystal Palace?'; The Desire to Fill; The Gin Palace; Women's Spaces and Women's Consumption; Feminist Theory, Architecture and Addiction; Endnotes; 4 Closeting Addiction: Confinement, Punishment, Concealment |
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The Closet: Material Site, Queer Theory and Spatial PracticeConfinement: Lunatic Asylums and Inebriate Homes; Reading the Confined Body: H.W. Diamond's Psychiatric Photography; 'The Wages of Sin was Death': Death as Punishment; Conclusion: On Concealment; Endnotes; 5 Advertising Masculine Vulnerability: Cocaine and Cigarettes after the First World War; Problem Pictures: Consuming Cocaine and Kenilworth Cigarettes; Alfred Priest, Cocaine and Art Criticism; Cocaine before, during and after the War; The Sound of Silence; Tobacco and the Great War; Cigarettes, Gender and Advertising |
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Domestic Spaces and Addictive SubstancesConclusion; Endnotes; Conclusion; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Introduction : the visual politics of addiction -- Wasted mothers : reading William Hogarth's Gin lane -- From graphic satire to temperance art : George Cruikshank's addiction to sobriety -- Addictive architecture : the Crystal Palace, gin palaces and women's consumption -- Closeting addiction : confinement, punishment, concealment -- Advertising masculine vulnerability : cocaine and cigarettes after the First World War -- Conclusion |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-178) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Substance abuse in art.
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Art and society -- Great Britain
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Art and society
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Substance abuse in art
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Alkoholismus Motiv
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Drogenabhängigkeit Motiv
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Kunst
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Great Britain
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Großbritannien
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351577489 |
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1351577484 |
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