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Lucy Shaw

Visual Arts, University of Birmingham

Thesis title:

Time was Away: Masculinity, Sexuality and Travel in late British Neo-Romantic Art, Illustration and Design 1940- 55

My thesis explores British Neo-Romantic art, design and illustration from 1940 until the end of the 1950s, with a focus on travel and sexuality in the work of John Minton, Keith Vaughan, Michael Ayrton, John Craxton, Robert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde.

Research Area

  • Art History
  • Visual Arts