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Book Detail
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Short Stories: London in Two-and-a-half Dimensions
Lim, CJ
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Category: Travel and Tourism Publisher: Taylor & Francis Affiliation: University College London, UK
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Synopsis:
Combining place and fiction in an imaginative interpretation of 12 sites in the city of London, CJ Lim and Ed Liu take familiar places, institutions, life styles and landmarks in the British capital and render them fantastic. The medium is an intersection of paper assemblages with short stories. The stories have been exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts and the Victoria and Albert Museum but are collected for the first time in a single volume, laid out as they were designed to be seen as one phantasmogoric city vision. Beautifully illustrated, the book combines image with fiction to construct a sequence of improbable marriages between place and fantasy. Drawing on a wealth of literary symbolism from Carroll's Alice in Wonderland to Dicken's Tale of Two Cities and imbued with humour and irony, this book builds on London's mix of extravagance and fictive tradition. Enthralling, inspirational and entertaining, this collection designs a vision of London, immoral, anarchic and unscientific and at the same time glorious, ravishing and a pleasure to behold.
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