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Adam Dant's Political Maps
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25,19 € |
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| Verlag: | Batsford |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 30.06.2022 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781849948135 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 128 |
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A timely, large-format collection of fine art maps from Adam Dant, looking at the fractious world of politics.
Adam Dant's Political Maps is an all-new collection of this highly regarded artist's intricate, absorbing and beautiful maps, this time focused on the world of politics. Informed by his experiences as the official artist of the UK general election in 2015, these glorious works of art are amusing and subversive, hugely imaginative and packed with eye-catching detail.
Themes range across the spectrum of British and global politics past and present, bringing in recent political upheavals ('Stop That Brexit') and current issues such as the controversy around certain statues ('Iconoclastic London'), alongside more timeless subjects like a map of US presidents ('Presidents of the United States of America'), and, of course, the pandemic ('Viral London'). Other highlights include:
- Johnson's London: Notorious places associated with Prime Minister Boris Johnson, including all the houses he has ever lived in
- New York Tawk: A visualisation of New York City through a century of its slang
- British Left Groups: A fascinating history of left-wing parties and pressure groups through the decades
- Quitting Europe: Brexit encapsulated in exotic European cigarette packets from the artist's youthWitty, acerbic and intelligent, this unique collection will delight history enthusiasts, art lovers and politics buffs of all persuasions, and its large format guarantees hours of happy browsing of the densely packed detail Adam Dant brings to all his images.
Adam Dant's Political Maps is an all-new collection of this highly regarded artist's intricate, absorbing and beautiful maps, this time focused on the world of politics. Informed by his experiences as the official artist of the UK general election in 2015, these glorious works of art are amusing and subversive, hugely imaginative and packed with eye-catching detail.
Themes range across the spectrum of British and global politics past and present, bringing in recent political upheavals ('Stop That Brexit') and current issues such as the controversy around certain statues ('Iconoclastic London'), alongside more timeless subjects like a map of US presidents ('Presidents of the United States of America'), and, of course, the pandemic ('Viral London'). Other highlights include:
- Johnson's London: Notorious places associated with Prime Minister Boris Johnson, including all the houses he has ever lived in
- New York Tawk: A visualisation of New York City through a century of its slang
- British Left Groups: A fascinating history of left-wing parties and pressure groups through the decades
- Quitting Europe: Brexit encapsulated in exotic European cigarette packets from the artist's youthWitty, acerbic and intelligent, this unique collection will delight history enthusiasts, art lovers and politics buffs of all persuasions, and its large format guarantees hours of happy browsing of the densely packed detail Adam Dant brings to all his images.
<p>Introduction 8</p><p>Division 10</p><p>The Mother of Parliaments 12</p><p>The Government Stable 14</p><p>Johnson's London 20</p><p>The Ministry + Passion of J.C 22</p><p>British Left Groups 24</p><p>Stop That Brexit 28</p><p>Ruritanian Europe 30</p><p>The Invasions of the British Isles 32</p><p>Quitting Europe: Some Anecdotes 34</p><p>Rudimentary London 38</p><p>The London Rebus 40</p><p>Viral London 42</p><p>Iconoclastic London 44</p><p>The London Calendar 46</p><p>The Universal London Underground Map 48</p><p>The Critic's Perpetual Drinking Calendar 50</p><p>Jewish Spitalfields 52</p><p>Club Row Through the Ages 54</p><p>Guardians of London's Lost Rivers 62</p><p>Civil War Defences 64</p><p>Argonautica Londinensi 66</p><p>Triumph of Debt, Royal Exchange Square 68</p><p>Triumph of Debt, Canary Wharf 70</p><p>Moneyscrape 72</p><p>Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom 74</p><p>Presidents of the United States of America 76</p><p>Cockney Rhyming America 78</p><p>New York Tawk 80</p><p>Paris Argot 82</p><p>The Oxford Meridian 84</p><p>Metaphysical Cambridge 94</p><p>Theatreland 96</p><p>A Map of the National Gallery: London's Collection of Subliminal Images 98</p><p>Tulip Fever 102</p><p>Coco-opolis 104</p><p>Scottish London 106</p><p>A Walk Round the End of the World 108</p><p>Lindon: A Map of London as it Might Have Been 110</p><p>The Mind of East London 112</p><p>The Gentle Author's Tour of Spitalfields 114</p><p>The Paradise of Sleaze 116</p><p>The Great British Beast Chase 118</p><p>The Meeting of the Old & the New East End in Redchurch St 120</p><p>Operation Owl Club 122</p><p>An Encyclopedy of Ye Age of Enlightenment Citizens & Kings 124</p><p>Stanfords World of Covent Garden 126</p><p>Acknowledgements and Credits 128</p>
Adam Dant studied at the Royal College of Art, London and the MS University Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda, India. He creates dense, elaborate narrative drawings that examine and depict public contemporary life, space, mythologies and histories. These works are thoroughly researched, with the artist drawing on a deep well of historical and visual sources to create his wittily perceptive detailed drawings. He is the author of Maps of London and Beyond, and lives and works in London.
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