Mining Town, No. 2

Ursula Fookes British

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Here, Fookes depicts the spread of industry into the countryside and the towns built in response. The seemingly endless rows of modern, uniform houses represent the impact of the dramatic rise in homebuilding in the interwar period, especially the construction of public housing. The railway tracks that bisect the image signal the expanded train service for both commuters and those traveling longer distances, thus altering the landscape and allowing people to move beyond the city. Fookes’s color linocut Poplar Trees and Telegraph Poles shows the impact of related technologies, such as the telephone and telegraph,that accompanied these new developed environments.

Mining Town, No. 2, Ursula Fookes (British, 1906–1991), Linocut on Japanese paper

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Mining Town, No. 2, Ursula Fookes (British, 1906–1991), Linocut on Japanese paper
Mining Town, No. 2, Ursula Fookes (British, 1906–1991), Linocut on Japanese paper

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