Museum Without Walls - Softcover

Meades, Jonathan

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Synopsis

Jonathan Meades has an obsessive preoccupation with places. He has spent 30 sales and marketing years constructing 60 films, two novels, and hundreds of pieces of journalism that explore an extraordinary range of them, from natural landscapes to man-made buildings and "the gaps between them," drawing attention to what he calls "the rich oddness of what we take for granted." This book collects 54 pieces and six film scripts that dissolve the barriers between high and low culture, good and bad taste, deep seriousness and black comedy. Meades delivers what he calls "heavy entertainment"—strong opinions backed up by an astonishing depth of knowledge. To read Meades on places, buildings, politics, or cultural history is an exhilarating workout for the mind. He leaves you better informed, more alert, less gullible.

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About the Author

Jonathan Meades is the author of Filthy English, Peter Knows What Dick Likes, The Fowler Family Business, and Pompey. His films for the BBC include Abroad in Britain, Further Abroad, Meades on France, and The Joy of Essex.

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ISBN 10:  1783528532 ISBN 13:  9781783528530
Publisher: Unbound, 2021
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