Description for Swinging City
paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; JFC; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 367.
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 generated by the city's counterculture. The connections between these two scenes are mapped looking firstly at the spectacular events that shaped post-war London, then at the modernist physical and social reconstruction of the city alongside artistic experiments such as Pop and Op Art. Making extensive use of London's underground press the book then explores the replacement of this seemingly materialistic image with the counterculture of underground London from the mid-1960s. ... Read more
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 generated by the city's counterculture. The connections between these two scenes are mapped looking firstly at the spectacular events that shaped post-war London, then at the modernist physical and social reconstruction of the city alongside artistic experiments such as Pop and Op Art. Making extensive use of London's underground press the book then explores the replacement of this seemingly materialistic image with the counterculture of underground London from the mid-1960s. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781138253155
SKU
V9781138253155
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About Simon Rycroft
Simon Rycroft, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Sussex, UK
Reviews for Swinging City
'Swinging City opens revealing geographical perspectives on a period and place that have become obscured by familiar mythologies. It maps the media worlds of Sixties London onto wide ranging networks of provincial and international counter-culture, marked with a radical use of new currents of science and technology as well as some traditional forms of dissent. This Swinging City is ... Read more