The Idea of Elsewhere
Wellcome Collection (Verlag)
978-1-78125-961-0 (ISBN)
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Lavinia Greenlaw embarks on an absorbing journey from here to elsewhere. These short, evocative chapters draw on her own experience as well as the responses of artists, writers and historical figures to the imperatives of elsewhere - not only in the work they've produced but in how they've chosen to live. She takes a simple act, such as locking the front door as we leave, and uses it to explore our idea of home as a safe place but also what it means when there is no front door or when we know we will never open it again.
With delicate precision she dissects the difference between luggage and baggage, accident and incident, and shows us how much of travel is about staying still. At once intricate and profound, her writing brings familiar detail to new life and in so doing subtly shifts our view of the overwhelming and the unthinkable as well as the routine.
Lavinia Greenlaw's interest in perception, optical technologies and landscape led to her being the first artist in residence at the Science Museum, and one of the first artists to be given a Wellcome Engagement Fellowship. She has written several works of poetry and fiction as well as Questions of Travel: William Morris in Iceland. Her work has been awarded a number of prizes, including the Forward Prize and the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger, and shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot and Costa Prizes. She has an MA in seventeenth-century art from the Courtauld Institute and has made radio documentaries about landscape, travel and light with subjects ranging from Arctic midsummer and midwinter to a year-long study of the solstices and equinoxes in Britain. Her immersive soundwork, Audio Obscura, a study of interrupted perception, won the Ted Hughes Award. The Idea of Elsewhere is published in association with Wellcome Collection, a free visitor destination that explores the connections between medicine, life and art in the past, present and future. Its acclaimed programme of events and exhibition attracts around a million visitors a year.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 5.9.2019 |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 135 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Reisen ► Reiseberichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78125-961-5 / 1781259615 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78125-961-0 / 9781781259610 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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