Savage Messiah

by Mark Fisher (Introduction), Greil Marcus (Preface), Greil Marcus (Preface), Mark Fisher (Introduction), Laura Grace Ford (Author)

New
Illustrated
2019
$37.59

Savage Messiah collects the entire set of Laura Oldfield Ford's fanzine to date. Part graphic novel, part artwork, the book is both an angry polemic against the marginalization of the city's working class and an exploration of the cracks that open up in urban space.

Synopsis

Savage Messiah collects the entire set of Laura Oldfield Ford's fanzine to date. Part graphic novel, part artwork, the book is both an angry polemic against the marginalization of the city's working class and an exploration of the cracks that open up in urban space.

$37.59

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20+ in stock

More Information

Format: Illustrated
Pages: 496
Edition: New, Updated
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 21 May 2019
ISBN 10: 1786637855
ISBN 13: 9781786637857

Media Reviews

The consumer-friendly face of neoliberal Britain gets an anarchic makeover in Laura Oldfield Ford's politically biting work. ... No false promises of a brighter, better, more sanitised tomorrow here. Instead, she focuses on areas haunted by an urban dispossessed, which regeneration seeks to concrete over: city wastelands where fortress-like old tower-blocks rise, with their Escher-like walkways and bleak recreational open spaces. - Skye Sherwin, Guardian Oldfield Ford displays authentic gifts as a recorder and mapper of terrain. She is a necessary kind of writer, smart enough to bring document and poetry together in a scissors-and-paste, post-authorial form. - Iain Sinclair, Guardian This black-and-white, cut `n' paste-style zine by the artist Laura Oldfield Ford, in which she traces her psychogeographical drifts around London's grimey underbelly, has achieved cult status in art circles since its first issue in 2005. Be warned: this is a city you won't find in any guidebook. - Independent There is poetry ... there is anger ... there are calls to arms ... and thankfully, there is humour. - Chris Hall, Icon Magazine Savage Messiah's fractured narratives, clipped sloganeering and topographical poetics have been, for the last decade or so, a kind of solace for anyone who loathed the coked-up arrogance, the intellectual and political vacuity and compulsory amnesia of the boom. It was a constant reminder that bad times were just around the corner. - Owen Hatherley, author of A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain No exercise in style nostalgia, this is her recovery of punk's provocation and politicisation. - Art Review Looking at Oldfield Ford's work, one sees the last three decades of urban flux laid out as singular snapshots-from the infinite, utopic possibilities of abandoned land that rave culture picked up, to the increasing civic and corporate control of space. - Oliver Basciano, Building Design What made Savage Messiah so interesting was ... its dialectical montage, its lost futures erupting into and over-running the seamless, optimistic spectacle of redevelopment and speculation-because it imagined other futures than the one being sold so extortionately to Londoners. It held out the promise of another modernism, of things no longer going on as they are. - domus

Author Bio

Laura Oldfield Ford, originally from Halifax, West Yorkshire, studied at the Royal College of Art and has become well known for her politically active and poetic engagement with London as a site of social antagonism. She exhibits and teaches across Europe and America.