The Image of the Popular Front

During the 1930s Europe was convulsed by political violence. The National Socialists rose to power in Germany and Fascists campaigned in Britain, Spain and France. Yet Europe was also transformed in this decade through new applications of film, photography and radio. In fact, these political and technological developments were closely intertwined.

Auteur
SIMON DELL is Lecturer in Art History in the School of World Art Studies and Museology at the University of East Anglia, UK.

Contenu
List of Illustrations Introduction: 6 February 1934 The Republican Imaginary: Hegemony and its Reproduction 'People of France': The Image Created 'Free Men': The Image Contested 'The Apocalypse of Fraternity': The Image Destroyed Epilogue: 30 November 1938 Bibliography