This blog represents an attempt to make available online, the whole of my practice-based PhD.
The Safe Cigarette: Visual Strategies of Reassurance in American Advertisements for Cigarettes - 1945-1964
Dr Jackie Batey
This site has links to all the written and practical elements that made up the entire submission, completed in 2003. I have also included some working visuals to show my methodology when creating the artist's books. This Practice-Based Ph.D. was created in two sections, the written element presented as a sequence of eight Fascicles (a thematic volume as a standalone artist's book), and the practical element presented as an inter-related set of nine Artist’s Books and Multiples. They were all packaged together and submitted to the University as a boxed object, bound in blue. I created this boxed-object thesis as an edition of three, but many of the artist's books have since formed the basis of my post-doctoral practice
Damp Flat Books. The actual boxed object can be handled in St.Peter's House Library, Brighton.
