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 youth Witty, 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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction 8
Division 10
The Mother of Parliaments 12
The Government Stable 14
Johnson’s London 20
The Ministry + Passion of J.C 22
British Left Groups 24
Stop That Brexit 28
Ruritanian Europe 30
The Invasions of the British Isles 32
Quitting Europe: Some Anecdotes 34
Rudimentary London 38
The London Rebus 40
Viral London 42
Iconoclastic London 44
The London Calendar 46
The Universal London Underground Map 48
The Critic’s Perpetual Drinking Calendar 50
Jewish Spitalfields 52
Club Row Through the Ages 54
Guardians of London’s Lost Rivers 62
Civil War Defences 64
Argonautica Londinensi 66
Triumph of Debt, Royal Exchange Square 68
Triumph of Debt, Canary Wharf 70
Moneyscrape 72
Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom 74
Presidents of the United States of America 76
Cockney Rhyming America 78
New York Tawk 80
Paris Argot 82
The Oxford Meridian 84
Metaphysical Cambridge 94
Theatreland 96
A Map of the National Gallery: London’s Collection of Subliminal Images 98
Tulip Fever 102
Coco-opolis 104
Scottish London 106
A Walk Round the End of the World 108
Lindon: A Map of London as it Might Have Been 110
The Mind of East London 112
The Gentle Author’s Tour of Spitalfields 114
The Paradise of Sleaze 116
The Great British Beast Chase 118
The Meeting of the Old & the New East End in Redchurch St 120
Operation Owl Club 122
An Encyclopedy of Ye Age of Enlightenment Citizens & Kings 124
Stanfords World of Covent Garden 126
Acknowledgements and Credits 128
Über den Autor
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. Dant lives and works in London.
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