Feeling blue Colour and the modern British hospital
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ArtikelSerie: Utgivningsinformation: Manchester Manchester University Press 2025Beskrivning: 1 electronic resource (320 p.)Innehållstyp: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781526168504
- 9781526168511
- 9781526168528
- Place qualifiers
- Europe
- Western Europe
- United Kingdom, Great Britain
- Time period qualifiers
- c 1500 onwards to present day
- 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999
- The Arts
- Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration
- History of design
- Architecture
- History of architecture
- Medicine
- Medicine: general issues
- History of medicine
- History and Archaeology
- History
- History: specific events and topics
- Social and cultural history
- National Health Service
- architecture
- art
- colour
- emotion
- homeliness
- hospitals
- humanisation
- interior design
- modernity
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Feeling Blue is the first book-length history of colour in modern hospitals. It examines colour in relation to six key themes – hygiene, emotion, humanisation, homeliness, play, and consumerism – which are tied together by the idea of the 'modern' hospital. The book does not simply describe changes to the appearance of hospitals over time, but instead thinks expansively about the role of colour in shaping how hospitals felt. It uses colour to understand the layered meanings of modernity in twentieth-century Britain, and its relationship to the 'mundane' or everyday life of hospitals.
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