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Ladybird landscapes: or, what to look for in the What to Look For books
Rural History ( IF 0.3 ) Pub Date : 2020-04-16 , DOI: 10.1017/s095679331900030x
Jeremy Burchardt

The interlocking relationships between agriculture, nature, science and modernity underwent fundamental, far-reaching change in mid-twentieth-century Britain. This article examines Ladybird’s iconic, bestselling but under-researched ‘What to Look For’ seasonal natural history series, focusing particularly on the illustrations by the distinguished wildlife artist Charles Tunnicliffe and their relationship to the text by the biologist Elliot Lovegood Grant Watson. Beneath their apparent simplicity, the ‘What to Look For’ books attempt an ambitious, forwards-looking synthesis between mechanisation and tradition, nature and livelihood that calls into question historiographical critiques (by Newby, Miller and Bunce, for example) of contemporary representations of the rural as nostalgic and evasive. The ‘What to Look For’ books quietly subvert some of the more distorting tropes of English landscape representation. People are shown going about their everyday work (in contrast to the ‘landscape without figures’ tradition) and modern farm machinery such as tractors and seed drills are also acknowledged and even celebrated. Tunnicliffe and Grant Watson sought to harmonise these potentially discordant elements; their vision of the rural was an inclusive one that accommodated working women, children and even to some extent ethnic diversity. Yet in the second half of the twentieth century attempts to imagine a positive relationship between rurality and modernity such as Ladybird’s were increasingly undermined by escalating ecological crises.

中文翻译:

瓢虫风景:或者,在“寻找什么”书籍中寻找什么

农业、自然、科学和现代性之间相互联系的关系在 20 世纪中叶的英国发生了根本性的、影响深远的变化。本文探讨了瓢虫标志性的、畅销但研究不足的季节性自然历史系列“寻找什么”,特别关注著名野生动物艺术家查尔斯·图尼克利夫的插图以及它们与生物学家艾略特·洛夫古德·格兰特·沃森的文字的关系。在看似简单的外表下,“寻找什么”书籍试图在机械化与传统、自然与生计之间进行雄心勃勃、前瞻性的综合,这引发了对历史学批评(例如,纽比、米勒和邦斯)对乡下的乡愁和回避。“寻找什么”书籍悄悄地颠覆了英国风景表现中一些更扭曲的比喻。人们被展示在他们的日常工作中(与“没有人物的风景”传统相反),拖拉机和播种机等现代农业机械也得到认可甚至庆祝。Tunnicliffe 和 Grant Watson 试图协调这些可能不和谐的元素。他们对农村的看法是包容性的,可以容纳职业妇女、儿童,甚至在某种程度上容纳种族多样性。然而,在 20 世纪下半叶,试图想象乡村与现代性之间的积极关系(如瓢虫)却越来越受到不断升级的生态危机的破坏。人们被展示在他们的日常工作中(与“没有人物的风景”传统相反),拖拉机和播种机等现代农业机械也得到认可甚至庆祝。Tunnicliffe 和 Grant Watson 试图协调这些可能不和谐的元素。他们对农村的看法是包容性的,可以容纳职业妇女、儿童,甚至在某种程度上容纳种族多样性。然而,在 20 世纪下半叶,试图想象乡村与现代性之间的积极关系(如瓢虫)却越来越受到不断升级的生态危机的破坏。人们被展示在他们的日常工作中(与“没有人物的风景”传统相反),拖拉机和播种机等现代农业机械也得到认可甚至庆祝。Tunnicliffe 和 Grant Watson 试图协调这些可能不和谐的元素。他们对农村的看法是包容性的,可以容纳职业妇女、儿童,甚至在某种程度上容纳种族多样性。然而,在 20 世纪下半叶,试图想象乡村与现代性之间的积极关系(如瓢虫)却越来越受到不断升级的生态危机的破坏。Tunnicliffe 和 Grant Watson 试图协调这些可能不和谐的元素。他们对农村的看法是包容性的,可以容纳职业妇女、儿童,甚至在某种程度上容纳种族多样性。然而,在 20 世纪下半叶,试图想象乡村与现代性之间的积极关系(如瓢虫)却越来越受到不断升级的生态危机的破坏。Tunnicliffe 和 Grant Watson 试图协调这些可能不和谐的元素。他们对农村的看法是包容性的,可以容纳职业妇女、儿童,甚至在某种程度上容纳种族多样性。然而,在 20 世纪下半叶,试图想象乡村与现代性之间的积极关系(如瓢虫)却越来越受到不断升级的生态危机的破坏。
更新日期:2020-04-16
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