基本説明
Distorting Allen Ginsberg's intuition of Liverpool in its title, Tate Liverpool will present a major exhibition from February to September 2007 to mark the city's 800th anniversary. The accompanying exhibition catalogue, Centre of the Creative Universe, investigates how the city has been an influence and inspiration to a wide range of visual artists.
Full Description
Liverpool is a place of myths - both as generated by its inventive inhabitants and as envisaged from afar. As infamous Liverpudlian raconteur George Melly points out, the city is 'aware of its own myth and eager to project it.' Centre of the Creative Universe presents Liverpool as a world city with an undying capacity to inspire imaginations - from Sefton Park to San Francisco. Lavishly illustrated, this book traces the representation of the city in art, photography, film, music, literature and poetry and presents an insightful and revealing account of art and bohemian life in Liverpool since 1945. The city emerges as an unlikely centre of avant-garde activity attracting internationally-renowned artists as diverse as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bernd and Hilla Becher, the Boyle Family, Yoko Ono, Candida Höfer, John Latham, Tom Wood, Martin Parr, Rineke Dijkstra and Alec Soth.
Contents
Foreword
Christoph Grunenberg and Robert Knifton
1. The Crater of the Volcano: Liverpool and the Avant-Garde
Christoph Grunenberg and Robert Knifton
2. Liverpool Surreal
Paul Morley
3. In Camera: Stories from the City
Russell Roberts
4. The Archive City: Reading Liverpool's Urban Landscape Through Film
Les Roberts and Richard Koeck
5. Raising the Consciousness? Re-visiting Allen Ginsberg's Liverpool trip in 1965
Simon Warner
6. Liverpool's Left Bank
Darren Pih
7. Facts and Fictions: Liverpool and the Avant-Garde in the late-1960s and 70s
Sam Gathercole
8. Filmaktion: New Directions in Film-Art
Lucy Reynolds
9. A Shadow Madness: Memories of Eric's
Jaki Florek
10. Welcome to the Pleasure Dome: Art in Liverpool 1988-1999
Bryan Biggs
11. Packaging Culture, regulating Cultures: The Re-branded Cuty
Paul R. Jones and Stuart Wilks-Heeg
12. Liverpool Will Never Let You Down
Bill Drummond
Mapping Art onto the City
Timeline
Darren Pih and Robert Knifton
Editors and Contributors
Photography Credits
Index