Rennie, Paul (2005) An investigation into the design, production and display contexts of industrial safety posters produced by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents during WW2 and a catalogue of posters. PhD thesis, University of the Arts London.
Rennie, Paul. Ph.D. thesis (14MB) |
Type of Research: | Thesis |
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Creators: | Rennie, Paul |
Description: | The industrial safety posters produced by Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) during WW2 are evidence of a politically progressive, socially engaged and mass-produced graphic communication in Britain. These characteristics allow the RoSPA posters to qualify, by Walter Benjamin’s criteria, as exemplars of Modernist cultural production in the age of mechanical reproduction. The emergence of these images, within the unlikely context of war, is evidence of the social change identified by George Orwell as a necessary condition of victory. Furthermore, the presence of this material, within an English context, counters the prevailing orthodoxy of an English resistance to Modernism. The thesis describes the administrative and technical determinants of the posters, as indicated by the structure of RoSPA, the personalities behind the campaign and the technical expertise of the printers; Loxley Brothers of Sheffield. Quaker and Nonconformist antecedents are revealed to define the values of both administration and printers. |
Your affiliations with UAL: | Colleges > London College of Communication |
Date: | April 2005 |
Date Deposited: | 28 Mar 2013 16:58 |
Last Modified: | 07 Oct 2015 20:38 |
Item ID: | 5661 |
URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/5661 |
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