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The Domesday Book Peter Kennard

The Domesday Book By Peter Kennard

The Domesday Book by Peter Kennard


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Summary

This volume combines poetry, photography and photomontage to create a narrative of our time as we approach the Millennium. The book ties in with an exhibition at the Gimpel Fils Gallery in London.

The Domesday Book Summary

The Domesday Book by Peter Kennard

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.

The Domesday Book 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

About Peter Kennard

Peter Kennard is Senior Lecturer in Photography at the Royal College of Art.

Additional information

GOR004259567
9780719058035
0719058031
The Domesday Book by Peter Kennard
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Manchester University Press
1999-12-09
224
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