Places Where I Forgot Things

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ID6141655
AuthorsIan Waites (0000-0002-1781-6810, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume9
Issue3
Pages357-370
Publication date2013-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCultural Politics an International Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1743-2197 • E-ISSN: 1751-7435
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/17432197-2347027
OpenAlexW1978031753
LanguageEN
References cited16

George Shaw (1966–) is a British painter known for his meticulous depictions of Tile Hill in Coventry, a post–World War II council housing estate where Shaw lived from 1968 until the late 1980s. This article assesses Shaw's work as a product of a wider struggle between the idealistic principles of postwar council estate planning and the later negative social and aesthetic stereotyping of these estates. Next, it discusses how Shaw's paintings appear to cope with this struggle by “spectrally wavering” between a visualization of Tile Hill as remembered from his childhood and as it is in its present condition. Finally, Shaw's work is examined in relation to theories of autobiographical memory and childhood development to show how the postwar council estate had an indelible effect on the formation of Shaw's personal and cultural identity

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Estate · Identity (music · Painting · Political science · Relation (database · Sociology · Tile · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Nostalgia and Consumer Behavior

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