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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
Myles Birket Foster, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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.
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