Pedro and Ricky Come Again - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pedro and Ricky Come Again write by Jonathan Meades. This book was released on 2021-03-18. Pedro and Ricky Come Again available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This landmark publication collects three decades of writing from one of the most original, provocative and consistently entertaining voices of our time. Anyone who cares about language and culture should have this book in their life. Thirty years ago, Jonathan Meades published a volume of reportorial journalism, essays, criticism, squibs and fictions called Peter Knows What Dick Likes. The critic James Wood was moved to write: ‘When journalism is like this, journalism and literature become one.’ Pedro and Ricky Come Again is every bit as rich and catholic as its predecessor. It is bigger, darker, funnier, and just as impervious to taste and manners. It bristles with wit and pin-sharp eloquence, whether Meades is contemplating northernness in a German forest or hymning the virtues of slang. From the indefensibility of nationalism and the ubiquitous abuse of the word ‘iconic’, to John Lennon’s shopping lists and the wine they call Black Tower, the work assembled here demonstrates Meades's unparalleled range and erudition, with pieces on cities, artists, sex, England, concrete, politics and much, much more.
Museum Without Walls
Museum Without Walls - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Museum Without Walls write by Jonathan Meades. This book was released on 2012-11-13. Museum Without Walls available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jonathan Meades has an obsessive preoccupation with places. He has spent thirty years constructing sixty films, two novels and hundreds of pieces of journalism that explore an extraordinary range of them, from natural landscapes to man-made buildings and 'the gaps between them', drawing attention to what he calls 'the rich oddness of what we take for granted'. This book collects fifty-four pieces and six film scripts that dissolve the barriers between high and low culture, good and bad taste, deep seriousness and black comedy. Meades delivers what he calls 'heavy entertainment' – strong opinions backed up by an astonishing depth of knowledge. To read Meades on places, buildings, politics or cultural history is an exhilarating workout for the mind. He leaves you better informed, more alert, less gullible.
Modern Buildings in Britain
Modern Buildings in Britain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modern Buildings in Britain write by Owen Hatherley. This book was released on 2022-04-07. Modern Buildings in Britain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The definitive illustrated guide to modern British architecture, from one of the most acclaimed critics at work today Modernism is now a century old, and its consequences are all around us, built into our everyday lived environments. Its place in Britain's history is fiercely contested, and its role in our future is the subject of ongoing controversy - but modernist buildings have undoubtedly changed our cities, politics and identity forever. In Modern Buildings in Britain, Owen Hatherley applauds the ambition and explores the significance of this most divisive of architectures, travelling from Aberystwyth to Aberdeen, from St Ives to Shetland, in search of our most important and distinctive modern buildings. Drawing on hundreds of examples, we learn how the concrete of Brutalism embodies post-war civic principles, how corporate values were expressed in the glass façades of the International Style, and why Ecomodernist experimentation is often consigned to the geographic fringes. As Hatherley considers the social, political and cultural value of these structures - a number of which are threatened by demolition - two linked questions emerge: what happens to a building after it has been lived in, and what becomes of an idea when its time has passed? With more than six hundred pages of trenchantly opinionated, often witty analysis, and with three hundred photographs in duotone and colour, Modern Buildings in Britain is a landmark contribution to the history of British architecture.
Art, Elitism, Authenticity and Liberty
Art, Elitism, Authenticity and Liberty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Art, Elitism, Authenticity and Liberty write by Paul Clements. This book was released on 2024-08-20. Art, Elitism, Authenticity and Liberty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book excavates the depths of creative purpose and meaning-making and the extent to which artist autonomy and authenticity in art is a struggle against psychological conditioning, controlling cultural institutions and markets, key to which is representation. The chapters are underpinned by examples from the arts, and the narrative weaves a trail through a range of conceptualizations that are applied to various aspects of visual culture from mainstream canonical arts to avant-garde, community and public art; social and political art to commercial art; and ethereal art to the popular, edgy and kitsch. The book is wide-ranging and employs various aesthetic, cultural, philosophical, political, psycho-social and sociological debates to highlight the problems and contradictions that an encounter with the arts and creativity engenders. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, museum studies, arts management, cultural policy, cultural studies and cultural theory.
Transitions: Methods, Theory, Politics
Transitions: Methods, Theory, Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transitions: Methods, Theory, Politics write by Tom Brass. This book was released on 2022-08-22. Transitions: Methods, Theory, Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examined here is political discourse about the pattern and desirability of economic development, extending from historical and contemporary views about race, culture, and labour regimes, to how the same themes inform travel writing.
