Neil Matheson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5772888 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neil Matheson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neil |
| FAMILY NAME | Matheson |
| SIGNATURE | MATHESON N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Westminster |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1635-7701 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Material Ecstasy: Cultural alienation and the influence of the nouveau roman in the work of Nakahira Takuma and J.M.G. Le Clézio
This article analyses some of the important early work (ca. late 1960s-early 1970s) of the Japanese photographer Nakahira Takuma (1938–2015) in terms of the themes of materiality and cultural alienation, focusing on Nakahira’s links with radical European art and writing of the period. In particular, it explores the relationship with the work of the French writer J.M.G Le Clézio in early writings such as Le Procès-Verbal (1963), L’Extase matériell…
Hiroshima‒Nagasaki Remembered Through the Body: Haptic visuality and the skin of the photograph
The continued growth in the interaction of photography with other media, together with a revived interest in analogue technologies in reaction against the growing digitisation of the image, have served to focus interest in the broader sensorial experience of the photograph. Film theory, using a range of ideas drawn from phenomenology and embodiment theory, provides a useful model through which to rethink our understanding of the way in which phot…
National identity and the melancholy of ruins: Cecil Beaton's photographs of the London Blitz
Wartime imagery recording the aftermath of bombing raids in Britain differs markedly from that depicting bomb damage in Germany and is closely bound up with narratives of cultural and national identity. In this article, the Blitz photographs of Cecil Beaton, as included in the book History Under Fire (1941), are analysed in relation to Eduardo Cadava's argument that Walter Benjamin's conception of history is developed through the language of phot…
The Ghost Stamp, the Detective and the Hospital for Boots: Light and the Post‐War Battle Over Spirit Photography
‘If I were compelled to describe my present profession’, he added, laughing, ‘I should call myself a spirit photographer’s mechanic. And the object you hold in your hand is known as the Ghost Stamp
The phantom of surrealism: Photography, cultural identity and the reception of surrealism in England
This article discusses the reception of Surrealism in England between 1936 and 1939, when the movement became embroiled in questions of cultural identity and critics such as Herbert Read attempted to assimilate it into the broad tradition of Romanticism. Focusing upon photography, the article considers how Humphrey Jennings, Paul Nash, Eileen Agar, Len Lye, Roland Penrose, Lee Miller and Bill Brandt assimilated Surrealism to their own artistic co…
National identity and the melancholy of ruins: Cecil Beaton's photographs of the London Blitz
Wartime imagery recording the aftermath of bombing raids in Britain differs markedly from that depicting bomb damage in Germany and is closely bound up with narratives of cultural and national identity. In this article, the Blitz photographs of Cecil Beaton, as included in the book History Under Fire (1941), are analysed in relation to Eduardo Cadava's argument that Walter Benjamin's conception of history is developed through the language of phot…
The phantom of surrealism: Photography, cultural identity and the reception of surrealism in England
This article discusses the reception of Surrealism in England between 1936 and 1939, when the movement became embroiled in questions of cultural identity and critics such as Herbert Read attempted to assimilate it into the broad tradition of Romanticism. Focusing upon photography, the article considers how Humphrey Jennings, Paul Nash, Eileen Agar, Len Lye, Roland Penrose, Lee Miller and Bill Brandt assimilated Surrealism to their own artistic co…
The Ghost Stamp, the Detective and the Hospital for Boots: Light and the Post‐War Battle Over Spirit Photography
‘If I were compelled to describe my present profession’, he added, laughing, ‘I should call myself a spirit photographer’s mechanic. And the object you hold in your hand is known as the Ghost Stamp
National identity and the melancholy of ruins: Cecil Beaton's photographs of the London Blitz
Wartime imagery recording the aftermath of bombing raids in Britain differs markedly from that depicting bomb damage in Germany and is closely bound up with narratives of cultural and national identity. In this article, the Blitz photographs of Cecil Beaton, as included in the book History Under Fire (1941), are analysed in relation to Eduardo Cadava's argument that Walter Benjamin's conception of history is developed through the language of phot…
Hiroshima‒Nagasaki Remembered Through the Body: Haptic visuality and the skin of the photograph
The continued growth in the interaction of photography with other media, together with a revived interest in analogue technologies in reaction against the growing digitisation of the image, have served to focus interest in the broader sensorial experience of the photograph. Film theory, using a range of ideas drawn from phenomenology and embodiment theory, provides a useful model through which to rethink our understanding of the way in which phot…
Material Ecstasy: Cultural alienation and the influence of the nouveau roman in the work of Nakahira Takuma and J.M.G. Le Clézio
This article analyses some of the important early work (ca. late 1960s-early 1970s) of the Japanese photographer Nakahira Takuma (1938–2015) in terms of the themes of materiality and cultural alienation, focusing on Nakahira’s links with radical European art and writing of the period. In particular, it explores the relationship with the work of the French writer J.M.G Le Clézio in early writings such as Le Procès-Verbal (1963), L’Extase matériell…
Art (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Photography and Visual Culture (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Visual Culture and Art Theory (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works)