Cold White of Day: White, colour, and materiality in the twentieth-century British hospital
Cold White of Day: White, colour, and materiality in the twentieth-century British hospital
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白昼的冷白：二十世纪英国医院的白色、色彩和物质性
DOI：
10.1093/tcbh/hwac020
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发表时间：
2023
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0.9
通讯作者：
Bates V
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Bates V
建筑环境是现代历史的中心。然而，学者们更多地关注建筑的建筑、外观和布局，而不是其内部装饰、物质性和感官品质。对于历史学家来说，在这些后面的研究领域有很大的机会。这篇文章阐述了把色彩放在研究的中心，作为现代英国构成的一个重要部分的价值。它侧重于白色的使用，或者更确切地说，是许多白色阴影的表面和物体的使用，并以20世纪英国医院的案例研究来做到这一点。它表明，在现代英国医院，白色作为不断扩大的色彩调色板的一部分仍然很重要，而不是随着柔和色彩福利国家的兴起而被取代或降级，特别是作为卫生的象征，但也是创建“现代”和“人文”医院的持续组成部分。这篇文章还建议，历史学家可能会有效地使用物质概念来理解连续性和变化之间的关系，而不是坚持主导现代英国历史的传统政治分期。
The built environment is central to modern history. However, scholars have paid much more attention to buildings’ architecture, appearance, and layout, than to their interior decoration, materiality and sensory qualities. There is great opportunity for historians in these latter areas of study. This article makes a case for the value of putting colour at the centre of research, as a material part of the making of modern Britain. It focuses on the uses of ‘white’, or rather surfaces and objects in many shades of white, and takes the case study of twentieth-century British hospitals to do so. It shows that whiteness stayed important in modern British hospitals as part of an expanding colour palette, rather than being replaced or relegated with the rise of the pastel-colour welfare state, particularly as a symbol of hygiene but also as a continued part of creating ‘modern’ and ‘humanistic’ hospitals. This article also suggests that historians might productively use material concepts to understand relationships between continuity and change, rather than adhering to the traditional political periodizations that dominate modern British history.