Museum Without Walls

Name: Museum Without Walls
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SKU: 9781783528530
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By Jonathan Meades

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Museum Without Walls is a compelling collection of fifty-four pieces and six film scripts by Jonathan Meades, who explores the peculiarities of places from natural landscapes to architecture and the spaces between. Over thirty years, Meades has crafted a unique blend of journalism, novels, and films that challenge perceptions of culture, taste, and history. This book offers 'heavy entertainment' through sharp opinions and vast knowledge, inviting readers to rethink the ordinary and appreciate the rich oddness of the world around them.
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This book will appeal to those interested in arts, culture, architecture, and cultural history. It suits readers who enjoy intellectual stimulation mixed with humour and critical perspectives on everyday environments.

In this widely acclaimed collection, Jonathan Meades proves there is no such thing as a boring place

In this widely acclaimed collection, Jonathan Meades proves there is no such thing as a boring place

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Jonathan Meades has an obsessive preoccupation with places. He has spent thirty years constructing sixty 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".

Museum Without Walls collects fifty-four 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, and less gullible.

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Praised by critics for its vitality and depth, the book has been described as exhilarating and consistently entertaining. Rachel Cooke of the New Statesman highlights the force and scope of Meades’ ideas. Owen Hatherley in the London Review of Books calls him Britain's most surprising and informative writer on the built environment. Jonathan Glancey in the Architectural Review links Meades to a proud English literary tradition, while Will Wiles of Building Design terms the book an indispensable companion. Edwin Heathcote of the Financial Times commends its consistent, cutting entertainment.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781783528530

Publisher: Boundless Publishing Group Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 25 March 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Unbound

Edition: 2nd edition

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 464

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Arts & Culture Jonathan Meades Non-Fiction

About the Author

Jonathan Meades is a writer, journalist, essayist and film-maker. He is the author of Filthy English, Peter Knows What Dick Likes, The Fowler Family Business, Museum Without Walls and Pompey. In 2014, he published the first volume of his autobiography, An Encyclopaedia of Myself. His many films for the BBC include Abroad in Britain, Meades Eats, Meades on France, The Joy of Essex, Bunkers, Brutalism and Bloodymindedness and, most recently, Franco Building.