In Nina Lübbren and David Crouch (eds), Visual Culture and Tourism, Berg, 2003, pp.125-146

Based on both empirical research (visits to galleries, visual analyses of paintings) and theoretical (bringing together artists' letters and literature on tourism) and drawing on a wider research context of the history of modern art (specifically Post-Impressionism and Fauvism), an original conclusion is here reached that changing patterns of seaside tourism contributed significantly to the changing representation of the seaside from grey and sombre (north European locations) in the 1880s to sunny and leisurely (Mediterranean locations) by the 1920s.

Regarded by the Academic Reader for Berg as the most outstanding and original contribution to the volume, the output was reviewed in H-Soz-u-Kult, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute and The Times Literary Supplement.

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