"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 "A rallying cry to resist gentrification, council house sell-offs, the "right-to-buy" scandal, social cleansing [and] working-class marginalisation." - Jamie Johnson, Morning Star
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.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Savage Messiah collects the entire set of Laura Oldfield Fords fanzine to date. Part graphic novel, part artwork, the book is both an angry polemic against the marginalization of the citys working class and an exploration of the cracks that open up in urban space. The acclaimed art fanzine's psychogeographic drifts through a ruined city Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9781786637857
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