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Book Review: Swinging City: A Cultural Geography of London, 1950–1974. Simon Rycroft

Book Review: Swinging City: A Cultural Geography of London, 1950–1974. Simon Rycroft 461586 CGJ0010.1177/1474474012461586Cultural Geographiesbook reviews book reviews cultural geographies 19(4) 553 –556 book reviews © The Author(s) 2012 Reprints and permission: sagepub. co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1474474012461586 cgj.sagepub.com Swinging City: A Cultural Geography of London, 1950–1974. Simon Rycroft. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2011. 200 pp. £50 cloth. ISBN 9780754648307 In many ways, we still inhabit the 1960s. Stock images of ‘swinging’ London have imprinted themselves on the consciousness of contemporary culture. But in doing so, they have obscured much of what was most politically radical or artistically innovative about the era, reducing it to safe images of youthful excess and hippy hedonism. In this important and lively account of the cultural geography of 1960s London counter-culture, Simon Rycroft draws out the links between some of the more familiar images of swinging London and the less well-known, more radical and experimental counter-cultures that came to the surface from 1967. Linking together the seemingly incoherent assemblage of counter-cultural movements, he shows, was a shared cosmology, a novel way of understanding nature, experience, embodiment and representation. Attention is devoted to subjects such as the aesthetic and stylistic origins of swinging London in the 1950s and early 1960s (for example, Angry writing, Beat culture, Pop Art, Op Art); http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Cultural Geographies SAGE

Book Review: Swinging City: A Cultural Geography of London, 1950–1974. Simon Rycroft

Cultural Geographies , Volume 19 (4): 2 – Oct 1, 2012
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461586 CGJ0010.1177/1474474012461586Cultural Geographiesbook reviews book reviews cultural geographies 19(4) 553 –556 book reviews © The Author(s) 2012 Reprints and permission: sagepub. co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1474474012461586 cgj.sagepub.com Swinging City: A Cultural Geography of London, 1950–1974. Simon Rycroft. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2011. 200 pp. £50 cloth. ISBN 9780754648307 In many ways, we still inhabit the 1960s. Stock images of ‘swinging’ London have imprinted themselves on the consciousness of contemporary culture. But in doing so, they have obscured much of what was most politically radical or artistically innovative about the era, reducing it to safe images of youthful excess and hippy hedonism. In this important and lively account of the cultural geography of 1960s London counter-culture, Simon Rycroft draws out the links between some of the more familiar images of swinging London and the less well-known, more radical and experimental counter-cultures that came to the surface from 1967. Linking together the seemingly incoherent assemblage of counter-cultural movements, he shows, was a shared cosmology, a novel way of understanding nature, experience, embodiment and representation. Attention is devoted to subjects such as the aesthetic and stylistic origins of swinging London in the 1950s and early 1960s (for example, Angry writing, Beat culture, Pop Art, Op Art);

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