Swinging City A Cultural Geography of London 1950-1974

Name: Swinging City A Cultural Geography of London 1950-1974
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ISBN: 9780754648307

ISBN-10: 0754648303

ISBN-13: 9780754648307

Edition: 2010

Authors: Simon Rycroft

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This book works with two contrasting imaginings of 1960s London: the one of the excess and comic vacuousness of Swinging London, the other of the radical and experimental cultural politics generating by the city's counter-culture. The connections between these two scenes is mapped looking firstly at the spectacular events that shaped post-war London, then moves through the modernist physical and social reconstruction of the city together with artistic experiments such as Pop Art. The book then looks at the replacement of this seemingly materialistic image with the counter-culture of Underground London from the mid-1960s. The book argues that these disparate threads cohere around a shared…

Book details

List price: $104.17
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 12/23/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 200
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English