SOCIALVISION.CO.UK
community and communication in British modernism

popular visual culture in Britain 1941 - 1951

 

a site by Paul Rennie
 
paul@socialvision.co.uk

p@rennart.co.uk

 

observation and knowledge and power

LOOK AND LEARN

 

why did social vision develop

WHY?

 

society politics and war in Britain 1941-1951

WHEN

 

a database of images posters and objects

WHAT

 

the personalities behind the project

WHO

 

the technologies and media that made it possible

HOW

 

social vision and design education today

NOW

 

READING

 

WRITING

 

no man is an island

John Donne 1624

 


all art is propaganda
it is high time
modern art became propaganda for

social justice
instead of propaganda for the
decadent ideals

of capitalism

Eric Gill 1934

 

 

October 2005

Folkestone Kent

www.socialvision.co.uk

paul rennie