London Burning : Portraits from a Creative City - Creative Fire

A new creative sizzle is in the air, establishing the backdrop for a major revival across all of London''s creative sectors. Having invented the Swinging ''60s, punk rock in the ''70s and Cool Britannia in the ''90s, London in the 2010s is firing up the engine of growth and renewal yet again. Encompassing a unique, no-holds-barred exploration of the city as the contemporary world''s creative centre, ''London Burning: Portraits from a Creative City'' seeks to define exactly what it is that makes Britain''s capital the international urban HQ for creativity and innovation. Why and how has the city become a creative universe of its own making? How does it continue to regenerate, to renew its creative pulse, to confound the naysayers who pop up on the horizon every decade or so to foretell its decline? Over a hundred intimate, probing interviews reveal not only the private lives and views of some of London''s leading creative personalities but also the variegated urban scene they inhabit as observed through the personal prisms of these movers and shakers, whether established or new to the scene, young or old, high-brow or populist. Searching out the city''s hidden treasures, unravelling the apparent simplicity defining its urban and semi-rural landscapes, unmasking the frivolous and highlighting tastes from the fantastic to the fastidious, ''London Burning: Portraits from a Creative City'' will unlock secret passions, undress social mundanities and address outrageous profanities.

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• Authors: Hossein Amirsadeghi, Amirsadeghi Hossein, Andrea Belloli, Maryam Eisler, Eisler Maryam, Amirsadeghi Hossein
• Assisted by: Hossein Amirsadeghi (Editor), Maryam Eisler (Editor), Maryam Homayoun Eisler (Editor)
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9780500970713
• ISBN: 978-0-500-97071-3
• No. of pages: 600
• Weight: 4680 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; London, Greater London, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, PHOTOGRAPHY / Photojournalism, 21st Century, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Photographic reportage, Photojournalism and documentary photography, Social History;Cities;London;Celebrity