Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
01.12.2010
Verlag
TurnaroundSeitenzahl
108
Maße (L/B/H)
35.3/28.6/2 cm
Gewicht
1365 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-904587-89-7
A Landscape of Wales takes a broad look at the contemporary Welsh landscape.
James Morris challenges the tourist clichés and looks at the impact of human presence and the layers of
history in the landscape. He reflects upon issues of identity, exploitation and regeneration; it is a land of
beauty and of hardsip where ¿ in this post industrial, post rural economy ¿ Tesco and tourism are now the
great employers.
These are the contrasting realities of the Welsh landscape ¿ that seen by the many visitors and that experienced by most inhabitants. Morris moves between tourist hot spots and the terraces and back streets
where the majority of people live. The latter are often hard-bitten unpretty places, no longer the world¿s
largest producer of iron, coal, copper or slate; they have lost their historic reason and heroic status, sometimes even their raison d¿etre. By contrast the tourist landscape is one of pleasure seeking and escape ¿ this is the Wales that visitors are sold and want to see. But in a small country, this selling of culture for the tourist pound has difficult consequences that build on the complexities of history that have shaped so much of this landscape.
James Morris is an acclaimed photographer of landscape and the built environment. Based in the Wales, his work is in many private and public collections including The British Council; Museum of African Art, New York; Princeton University; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the National Library of Wales. Brought up in Manchester, Jim Perrin is an award-winning writer of Welsh descent. His books include River Map (Gomer, 2001), The Villain: the life of Don Whillans (Hutchinson, 2005) and Travels with the Flea (In Pinn, 2003).
The Climbing Essays won the mountaineering Literature Award at the 2006 Banff Mountain Festival.
A touring exhibition of the work opens at Aberystwyth Arts Centre in April 2010.
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