TY - BOOK TI - The BLOCK reader in visual culture SN - 0415139899 U1 - 701.03 PY - 1996/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Art and society KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Popular culture KW - Psychological aspects KW - Art KW - Political aspects N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Hot potatoes: art and politics in 1980 / Lucy Lippard -- 2. May stevens / Lisa Tucker -- 3. Structure and pleasure / Claire Pajaczkowska -- 4. Art, art school, culture / Griselda Pollock -- 5. Art history and hegemony / John Bird -- 6. Present, the scene of ... selves, the occasion of ... ruses / Fred Orton -- 7. "Unpicking the seams of her disguise" : self-representation in the case of Marie Bashkirtseff / Tamar Garb -- 8. Taking stock in design history / Fran Hannah and Tim Putnam -- 9. The materiality of design / Necdet Teymur -- 10. Towards a theory of consumption / Kathy Myers -- 11. Design and gender / Philippa Goodall -- 12. One continuous interwoven story (The Festival of Britain) / Barry Curtis -- 13. Visual representation and cultural politics / Nicholas Green and Frank Mort -- 14. Representation, the harem and the despot / Olivier Richon -- 15. Video: shedding the utopian moment / Martha Rosler -- 16. A report on the western front : postmodernism and the "politics" of style / Dick hebdige -- 17. An interview with Jean Baudrillard / Judith Williamson -- Appendix: Back issues of BLOCK and their contents ER -