London In The Sixties

Author : Rainer Metzger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500515631
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London in the Sixties written by Rainer Metzger and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powered by the three key elements of youth, affluence and the mass media, its bold, creative spirit attracting an international roster of artists and luminaries in fields from pop music and fashion to literature and the visual arts. While a new aristocracy of rock stars and trendsetters ruled the roost, Pop Art took a witty and detached view of contemporary consumerism, and architecture looked towards a utopian future. This vibrant book paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of this exciting era. It features a stellar cast of characters from every cultural arena, including David Hockney, Francis Bacon, David Bailey, The Beatles, Peter Blake, Mary Quant, Diana Rigg, Bridget Riley and many more, all presented in context and showing how they contributed to a city at the epicentre of a cultural boom that was heard around the world, and whose echoes still resonate today.

Author : Simon Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781785588433
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London Life written by Simon Wells and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many books, films and documentaries claim to have captured the phenomenon that was Swinging London, just one magazine was present in the capital during the 1960s to illustrate this extraordinary moment as it unravelled. London Life emerged in October 1965 and, over the next fifteen months, would document the capital's action at its absolute zenith. With imagery from the likes of David Bailey, Duffy and Terence Donovan, designs from Peter Blake, David Hockney, Gerald Scarfe and fledgling artist Ian Dury plus words and opinions from those riding high on the city`s cutting-edge, London Life remains the coolest document from the capital's most exciting period. Collected for the first time, including forewords from Peter Blake and David Puttnam and a scene-setting introduction from Simon Wells, London Life offers a remarkable and candid view on a period when London was the creative hub of the world.

Author : John Davis
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691223793
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Waterloo Sunrise written by John Davis and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is an urban history of London during the pivotal years of the 1960s and 1970s, when the metropolis was transformed from an industrial city that the Victorians might have recognised to an embryonic modern 'world city.' Previous work on London in these years has tended to focus upon the 1960s -in particular the 'Swinging London' phenomenon. Mary Quant, Carnaby Street and the King's Road, Chelsea, all appear in these pages, but it is argued that the 'swinging moment' of the mid-sixties was a passing symptom of a much broader transformation from an industrial to a service-based city, and it is that transformation which this book examines. London is too complex and diverse a city to be comprehended in a simple linear narrative; this book adopts instead an innovative approach to urban history, by which London life and London's transformation are examined through a number of case studies looking at specific themes and areas of the city. Consumerism and the 'experience economy', home ownership and gentrification, deindustrialisation and deprivation, racial tension and unemployment, the attrition of public services and the steady loss of confidence in public agencies - national and local - emerge as overarching themes from the individual case studies in this book. Their combined effect, it is argued, was to prepare the ground for the Britain that Margaret Thatcher is usually held to have created after 1979 - without Thatcher herself having anything to do it"--

Author : George Perry
Publisher : Pavilion
ISBN 13 : 9781862056015
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London in the Sixties written by George Perry and published by Pavilion. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminal moments are captured of swinging London in the sixties. This book is peppered with amusing and revealing quotes from the rich and infamous to give a taste of how it was to live in this decade.

Author : David Mellor
Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sixties Art Scene in London written by David Mellor and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to accompany exhibition held at the Barbican Art Gallery, London, 11/3 - 13/6 1993.

Author : Mark Armstrong
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0747814996
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swinging Britain written by Mark Armstrong and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel back in time to the era when Carnaby Street led the world, a golden age of youthful innovation and exhilarating pop culture, and a fashion scene that defined a generation. The 1960s was one of the most exciting fashion decades of the twentieth century, during which British pop and youth culture gave birth to styles that would set international trends. This book reveals how the sweeping social changes of the 1960s affected the British look, how designers and entrepreneurs such as Mary Quant and John Stephen made London the fashion city of the decade, and the influence of public figures such as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Cathy McGowan, Twiggy and Jean Shrimpton on the national identity of a country finally recovering from a prolonged period of austerity.

Author : Mark Donnelly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317866622
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sixties Britain written by Mark Donnelly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixties Britain provides a more nuanced and engaging history of Britain. This book analyses the main social, political, cultural and economic changes Britain undertook as well as focusing on the 'silent majority' who were just as important as the rebellious students, the residents if Soho and the icons of popular culture. Sixties Britain engages the reader without losing sight of the fact that the 1960s were a vibrant, fascinating and controversial time in British History.

Author : Mark Lee Inman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781445665849
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London Docks in the 1960s written by Mark Lee Inman and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nostalgic look back at the docks of London the 1960s.

Author : Tudor Jones
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429788487
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bob Dylan and the British Sixties written by Tudor Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain played a key role in Bob Dylan's career in the 1960s. He visited Britain on several occasions and performed across the country both as an acoustic folk singer and as an electric-rock musician. His tours of Britain in the mid-1960s feature heavily in documentary films such as D.A. Pennebaker's Don't Look Back and Martin Scorsese's No Direction Home and the concerts contain some of his most acclaimed ever live performances. Dylan influenced British rock musicians such as The Beatles, The Animals, and many others; they, in turn, influenced him. Yet this key period in Dylan's artistic development is still under-represented in the extensive literature on Dylan. Tudor Jones rectifies that glaring gap with this deeply researched, yet highly readable, account of Dylan and the British Sixties. He explores the profound impact of Dylan on British popular musicians as well as his intense, and at times fraught, relationship with his UK fan base. He also provides much interesting historical context – cultural, social, and political – to give the reader a far greater understanding of a defining period of Dylan's hugely varied career. This is essential reading for all Dylan fans, as well as for readers interested in the tumultuous social and cultural history of the 1960s.

Author : Steve Lewis
Publisher : History Press
ISBN 13 : 9780752454863
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London's East End written by Steve Lewis and published by History Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of London's East End