The View from the Train
Cities and Other Landscapes
Published on 5. November 2013
224 pages
978-1-78168-505-1 (ISBN)
Description
In his classic sequence of films, Patrick Keiller retraces the hidden story of the places where we live, the cities and landscapes of our everyday lives. This collection explores the surrealist perception of the city; the relationship of architecture to film; how cities change over time, as well as an urgent portrait of post-crash Britain. The View from the Train establishes Keiller as one of the most perceptive writers and thinkers about the city, landscape and politics.
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English
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London
United Kingdom
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978-1-78168-505-1 (9781781685051)
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Patrick Keiller's films include the celebrated London (1994), Robinson in Space (1997), The Dilapidated Dwelling (2000), and Robinson in Ruins (2010). He has devised large-scale installations including Londres, Bombay (Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, 2006) and The Robinson Institute (Tate Britain, London, 2012), the latter accompanied by a book The Possibility of Life's Survival on the Planet. He was a Research Fellow at the Royal College of Art, London (2002-11), and has taught in schools of art and architecture since 1974.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction: The View from the Train
- 1. The Poetic Experience of Townscape and Landscape
- 2. Atmosphere, Palimpsest and Other Interpretations of Landscape
- 3. Port Statistics
- 4. The Dilapidated Dwelling
- 5. Popular Science
- 6. Architectural Cinematography
- 7. London in the Early 1990s
- 8. London - Rochester - London
- 9. The Robinson Institute
- 10. The City of the Future
- 11. Film as Spatial Critique
- 12. Phantom Rides: The Railway and Early Film
- 13. Imaging
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
