Gardens... Shop fronts... Dress... Pubs... Motor cars... Sport: these are some if the ways in which the suburban dweller can assert his identity against encroaching respectability. They are also some of the general headings which Jeff Nuttall and Rodick Carmichael use as the basis for their investigation of the subculture of urban life, particularly in the North of England during the first half of the twentieth century.
The main theme of their book is the extraordinary quality to be found in the leisure culture of the major cities: a popular aesthetic, made of scraps and pieces of dead styles, cliched ornament and plundered pastiche, revamped and revitalised with startling vulgar vitality. The authors believe that this language of the commonplace, often called "bad taste", may reveal far more about the true nature of modern society than the consciously styled structures through which the age of technology attempts to create an identity. Information, reminiscences, anecdotes, character sketches, fantasy, sociology, and numerous photographs (of people, places and objects) are brought together under each heading to express the often contradictory, but always mutually enlightening views of the authors.
J. Nuttal, artist in sculpture, performance and words, teaches in the Fine Art Department, Leeds Polytechnic. His previous publications include Bomb Culture (1968), a best-selling study of pop culture. R. Carmichael, painter and writer, was Head of the Art and Design Department at the Gordon Institute of Technology in Geelong, which has now merged with State College of Victoria to form the new Deakin University in Geelong, Australia.
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