Dorothy Morland : Making ICA History
- Submitting institution
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The University of Huddersfield
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 21
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- ISBN
- 9781789621273
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This 60,000 word monograph is the first, full-length biography of Dorothy Morland (1906-1999) who remains the only female Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London. The book traces her busy private and public life throughout the 1930s up until the 1990s. It tells the story of one of the unacknowledged contributors to the success of the ICA and to the understanding of the international avant-garde in post-war Britain. As an arts administrator and a woman, Dorothy Morland’s contribution has been largely overlooked and this book aims to highlight her significant contribution to the public understanding of modernism. The book builds on Anne Massey’s extensive work on the history of the ICA, including the Special Issue of the Journal of Visual Culture which she edited in 2013 and her book, ICA: 1946-68 (ICA, 2014). Massey’s research for the book has drawn on primary sources held by Tate Archives and Library; the RIBA Archives at the V&A; the Roland Penrose Archives at the National Museum of Modern Art Edinburgh; the Red Brick Building Centre Ltd at Glastonbury; the Royal College of Music Archives; the Henry Moore Archives and the Lee Miller Archives. She has also worked closely with the Morland family, who have given her unprecedented access to their personal collections and memories. Massey also talked to the Boyle Family, Robert Freeman, Stephen Henderson and Antony Penrose about their memories of Morland.
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- Non-English
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