Visual artist David Jacques presents a narrative-based work combining text, illustration and accompanying artworks that convey an interest in issues concerning the representation of history. A compelling collection of factual subjects are investigated, juxtaposed and interwoven through a series of illusory happenings. In the years leading up to the First World War a small though significant network of Anarcho-syndicalist activists in downtown Liverpool instigated an annual conference-cum-discussion group titled 'Por Convencion Ferrer'. Contributions were broad ranging in their subject matter and relied upon the involvement of fictitious characters, spectral appearances and dream-like transcendences to places located either in the past or the future. After evidencing an archive of embroidered silk pennants commemorating each conference from 1910 through to 1918, an un-named narrator guides us through his research materials exploring the diverse content of some 27 presentations. Covering an array of matters broaching time, space and place, subjects encountered along the way range from the Scotland Road Free School to the zonal mapping of 'sleeping sickness' in the Belgian Congo, Thomas De Quincey's residing at Everton, and a Critical Mass bike ride through Manchester city centre.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
ISBN-13
9781846312069
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96370288
Product Key Features
Author
David Jacques
Publication Name
Por Convencion Ferrer, 1910-1918
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Archaeology
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
128 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
239mm
Item Width
163mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
David Jacques
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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