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The Domesday Book (Critical Image)

The Domesday Book (Critical Image)

by PeterKennard (Author)

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    Paperback 1999

    $27.05
Synopsis

This book combines poetry, photography and photomontage to create a narrative of our time as we approach the Millennium. Kennard's narrator is a wandering figure who arrives at the Millennium Dome as it is still under construction. In a fragmentary and hallucinatory fashion, the narrator flicks through images of the 20th Century as though seeing the images on a projector. This attempt to find a new form for the photographic book is a creative example of the The Critical Image series, which was commissioned to illustrate the links between photography and power, and to reveal how photography builds a sense of reality and promotes national interests. As the foremost practitioner of photomontage, Kennard is responsible for expanding and furthering the subject of photography itself.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 128
 Edition: illustrated edition
 Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 09 Dec 1999
ISBN 10: 0719058031
ISBN 13: 9780719058035

Media Reviews
In it's form and power, Peter Kennard's art ranks among the most important in the twentieth century. -- John Pilger, The Guardian
In this fine book, poetry and images work their graphic truth in tension with one another, juxtaposed against the vanities and aesthetic impoverishment of the Millennium Dome. For these are our Millennium's contrasts; wealth and poverty, consumption and starvation. Peter Kennard is a revolutionary artist because he shows us what is really there, using with ease and force any medium necessary for his message. -- Ken Livingstone, MP

In it's form and power, Peter Kennard's art ranks among the most important in the twentieth century. -John Pilger, The Guardian
In this fine book, poetry and images work their graphic truth in tension with one another, juxtaposed against the vanities and aesthetic impoverishment of the Millennium Dome. For these are our Millennium's contrasts; wealth and poverty, consumption and starvation. Peter Kennard is a revolutionary artist because he shows us what is really there, using with ease and force any medium necessary for his message. -Ken Livingstone, MP

In it's form and power, Peter Kennard's art ranks among the most important in the twentieth century. --John Pilger, The Guardian
In this fine book, poetry and images work their graphic truth in tension with one another, juxtaposed against the vanities and aesthetic impoverishment of the Millennium Dome. For these are our Millennium's contrasts; wealth and poverty, consumption and starvation. Peter Kennard is a revolutionary artist because he shows us what is really there, using with ease and force any medium necessary for his message. --Ken Livingstone, MP
Author Bio
Peter Kennard is Senior Lecturer in Photography at the Royal College of Art.