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The JG Ballard Book
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The JG Ballard Book
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Introducing
, an oversized collection of articles, ideas, interviews, insights and a travelogue... as well as uniquely featuring hi-rez reproductions of over 60 pages of handwritten and typed letters from JG Ballard himself.
is 192 (count 'em) full-colour large format pages of fun and fascinating insights into "The Seer of Shepperton" -- his life, his work and his planar intersections.
features contributions from some well-known denizens of the Ballardian universe:
suggests Ballard's political ideology may be as inverted as his plots;
offers up his thoughtful 1984 interview, "JG Ballard: Psychoanalyst of the Electronic Age";
cuts it open with "JG Ballard in the Dissecting Room";
stitches together all the disconnected Atrocity Exhibition bits in "Desperate Measures: A History of
"; seminal Ballard bibliographer
contributes actual Ballard documents from his extensive collection, a total of
;
r paints a picture of how Ballard has been treated by the visual media in "What Does JG Ballard Look Like?";
, fresh from his acclaimed study,
, amuses us with an unpublished 2005 Ballard interview; Prof
clocks in with "JG Ballard: Time Out of Mind";
, the creative force behind the JGB exhibition in Barcelona, takes a big screen look with "Ballardoscope: Some Attempts at Approaching the Writer as a Visionary";
amazingly paints a pure Ballard pastiche with "The Impossibility Exhibition"; and
re-imagines his 2007 journey to Shanghai to visit the few remains of JG Ballard's youth in the "wicked city", with original letters, maps and drawings by Ballard. The book features original cover art by
and 10 delicious photographs by
.
is a large format, full-colour, must-have collection for any Ballard fan!