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Kitty Hauser

Kitty Hauser is writing a book for Granta about the landscape archaeologist O.G.S. Crawford, to be called Bloody Old Britain. She is currently Research Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge.

From the London Review dated 15 April 2004

Cute

  • Fruits by Shoichi Aoki
  • The Image Factory: Fads and Fashions in Japan by Donald Richie

“Japanese ‘cute’ is a curious and very contemporary aesthetic, a style, a taste, an affectation: it denotes anything small, vulnerable and childlike that induces a feeling of pitiful love. There are cute expressions, cute gestures and cute ways of standing, with toes turned in. There are cute ways of dressing, too, especially for girls and young women: shoes with buckles, crinolined mini-skirts, mittens, toys worn as accessories, and the ubiquitous socks, some ankle-length, others longer and worn as if in the process of falling down, an effect achieved with special sock-glue.” [ read more . . . ]

Selected bibliography

  • Shadow Sites: Photography, Archaeology, and the British Landscape 1927-1955 (2007)
  • Stanley Spencer (2001)

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Cute · 15 April 2004

  • Fruits by Shoichi Aoki
  • The Image Factory: Fads and Fashions in Japan by Donald Richie