Museum without walls / Jonathan Meades.
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TextPublication details: London : Unbound, 2013.Description: xviii, 446 p. ; 20 cmISBN: - 9781783520190 (pbk.)
- 1783520191 (pbk.)
- 720.103 MEA
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 720.103 MEA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100575274 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Jonathan Meades has an obsessive preoccupation with places. He has spent thirty sales & marketing 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 54 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.
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 54 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 '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. "Everything is fantastical if you stare at it for long enough. Everything is interesting."
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Jonathan Meades is a writer, journalist, essayist and film-maker. He is the author of Filthy English , Peter Knows What Dick Likes , The Fowler Family Business , Museum Without Walls and Pompey . In 2014, he published the first volume of his autobiography, An Encyclopaedia of Myself .His many films for the BBC include Abroad in Britain , Meades Eats , Meades on France and, most recently, The Joy of Essex and Bunkers, Brutalism and Bloodymindedness Concrete Poetry .