Louise Purbrick

Biographic Data

ID202932
NAMELouise Purbrick
GIVEN NAMESLouise
FAMILY NAMEPurbrick
SIGNATUREPURBRICK L
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Brighton
ORCID0000-0001-8603-6810
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS7
AUTHOR COUNT12
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1992
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX2

  • Trafficking the Earth: Documents on Nitrate, Copper and Capitalism

    Open AccessIgnacio Acosta, Louise Purbrick et al.ARTICLETransformations2019

    Trafficking the Earth documents the extraction of copper and nitrate from the Atacama Desert, Chile, and the accumulation of their values in metropolitan sites, the City of London and the houses of the British merchants in particular. Presented here as a photo-essay, it juxtaposes words and images to create constellations of meaning intended to disrupt a linear narrative of a past running smoothly into the present. The essay draws upon and tries …

  • Postcards from Chile and Images from an Archive: Lighting the Nitrate of the 1973 Coup

    Open AccessLouise PurbrickARTICLEHumanities2018

    This article examines a mass produced postcard image as a picture of conflict. It considers the postcard as a Benjaminian ‘prismatic fringe’ through which an archive can be viewed, wherein documents of the British trade in Chilean nitrate are juxtaposed with those of General Pinochet’s 1973 military coup. The archive itself is explored as a site of loss and its postcard, an unvarying idealisation, as a particularly problematic but powerful image …

  • Nitrate ruins: The photography of mining in the Atacama Desert, Chile

    Louise PurbrickARTICLEJournal of Latin American…2017References: 15

    A photographic album entitled Oficina Alianza and Port of Iquique 1899 illustrates the industrial development of nitrate mining in Chile. From the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth, British capitalists dominated the extraction of Chilean nitrate and its export as a fertilizer and an explosive. The Oficina Alianza, a nitrate works at the centre of British monopoly of the trade, is, as other oficinas 10 across the Antofagasta and Tarap…

  • Photography and Documentary Film in the Making of Modern Brazil

    Open AccessLouise PurbrickARTICLEJournal of Historical Geography2016

  • Home, materiality, memory and belonging: Keeping culture by Rachel Hurdley

    Louise PurbrickARTICLEVisual Studies2016

    Home, materiality, memory and belonging: Keeping culture by Rachel Hurdley." Visual Studies, 31(4), pp. 373–374

  • Le mouchoir d'Armagh. Tissu, genre et politique: Irlande du Nord, 1976

    Louise PurbrickARTICLEClio2014References: 9

    L'article porte sur un mouchoir décoré par des femmes de l'Armée Républicaine Irlandaise (IRA) pendant leur incarcération à la prison d'Armagh, en 1976. Il s'intéresse aux aspects concrets d'un objet genré et politisé. En effet, le tracé, le remplissage à la couleur, la signature et l'échange de ce tissu prennent place à la fin de la première phase du conflit en Irlande du Nord caractérisée par les emprisonnements politiques. Dans les années 1970…

  • Trading the Past: Material Culture of Long Kesh/Maze, Northern Ireland

    Louise PurbrickARTICLEJournal of War and Culture Studies2013Cited by: 3References: 3

    Long Kesh/Maze, once Northern Ireland's largest prison, is one of its most important sites of conflict. Since closure in 2000, its demolition and development have been contested. Its material culture, the remaining architecture as well as the artefacts that belonged to either prisoners or prison officers are implicated in the processes of remembering or forgetting violence and defining perpetrators and victims of conflict. The traces of the priso…

  • The Last Murals of Long Kesh: Fragments of Political Imprisonment at the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland

    Open AccessLouise PurbrickCHAPTERArchaeologies of Internment2011

  • Museums and the Embodiment of Human Rights

    Open AccessLouise PurbrickARTICLEMuseum and Society2011

    The representation of human rights in museums is not simply another new phase of museum practice or policy. This article considers how the space of the museum is, and has always been, an important territory for the exercise of rights, and analyses the museum visit as a journey through which rights are offered to visitors and invested in them. Presenting two cases, Le Mémorial de Caen, Normandy, and the National Maritime Museum, London, it pays cl…

  • Brixton: Landscape of a Riot

    Louise Purbrick, J SchofieldARTICLELandscapes2009Cited by: 2References: 1

    Brixton, in the south-east London Borough of Lambeth, has a population of over a quarter of million of which, according to the Government Office for London, 38 per cent are members of 'Black and Minority Ethnic (BME)' communities. Parts of Brixton are among the 'most deprived areas' in the UK. Indeed, Brixton is renowned for its cultural mix of diversity and deprivation. Lambeth Borough Council declares that Brixton 'attracts more than its fair s…

  • Knowledge is Property: Looking at Exhibits and Patents in 1851

    Louise PurbrickARTICLEOxford Art Journal1997Cited by: 2

    Journal Article Knowledge is Property: Looking at Exhibits and Patents in 1851 Get access LOUISE PURBRICK LOUISE PURBRICK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oxford Art Journal, Volume 20, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 53–60, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/20.2.53 Published: 01 December 1997

  • Crystal Palace Revisited, Once Again

    Open AccessLouise PurbrickARTICLEArt History1992

    The Commodity Culture of Victorian England. Advertising and Spectacle, 1851—1914 by Thomas Richards , London: Verso, 1991, 306 pp., 50 b. & w. illus., £11.95