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Lynda Nead

Art Historian

Writer

Critic

Broadcaster

Upcoming Lecture: Magical Objects and the Gothic Imagination in Post-War Britain

The Lee B. Anderson Memorial Lecture

This lecture examines the presence and power of the Gothic imagination in British art and culture in the 1940s and 1950s. Focusing on a film, a painting, a photograph, and a novella, Lynda Nead explores how objects from the past find their way into the present, upsetting the aspirations and certainties of post-war reconstruction and modernisation.

Wednesday 23rd April 2025

Bard Graduate Center

38 West 86th Street
New York, New York 10024

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Myles Birket Foster, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Featured Work

Taking an interdisciplinary approach that looks at film, television, and commercial advertisements as well as more traditional media such as painting, The Tiger in the Smoke provides an unprecedented analysis of the art and culture of post-war Britain, presenting insights into how the Great Fogs of the 1950s influenced the newfound fashion for atmospheric cinematic effects.

The Tiger in the Smoke (2017)

© 2025 Lynda Nead

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