{"id":1146,"date":"2010-10-03T14:57:06","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T13:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2010-10-03T14:57:06","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T13:57:06","slug":"open-lecture-alan-powers-unreal-city-london-seen-by-poets-and-visual-artists-1919%e2%80%901939","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/2010\/10\/03\/open-lecture-alan-powers-unreal-city-london-seen-by-poets-and-visual-artists-1919%e2%80%901939\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Lecture: Alan Powers &#8211; UNREAL CITY: LONDON SEEN BY POETS AND VISUAL ARTISTS, 1919\u20101939"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Architecture Open Lecture Series 2010 \/11<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>University of Greenwich<\/li>\n<li>School of Architecture &amp; Construction<\/li>\n<li>Mansion Site, Avery Hill Campus<\/li>\n<li>Bexley Road, Eltham, London SE9 2PQ<\/li>\n<li>Norbert Singer Lecture Theatre (M055)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Wed 6 October 2010 18.30<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>Alan Powers<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>UNREAL CITY:LONDON SEEN BY POETS AND VISUAL ARTISTS, 1919\u20101939<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1147\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2010\/10\/OpenLecturePowers20102011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2010\/10\/OpenLecturePowers20102011.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2010\/10\/OpenLecturePowers20102011-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>T. S. Eliot called London an \u2018Unreal City\u2019 in<em> The Waste Land<\/em>, the defining poem of English modern literature, published in 1922. The lecture will explore <em>The Waste Land<\/em> as a text for interwar depictions of London, with the revulsion towards modernity that drives its modernism of expression and its apocalyptic acceptance that fragmentation of the urban environment as the outward manifestation of inward alienation. Eliot also evoked a pastoral affection for London\u2019s past, its lingering buildings, artefacts and social forms. Both modes of feeling were reflected by writers and visual artists working through the remaining inter\u2010war years, when a hidden face of London was revealed and a new understanding developed that has been an inspiration for subsequent writers. This love\u2010hate paradox will be explored through the poetry of John Betjeman and W. H. Auden, paintings of Paul Nash, Algernon Newton, Eric Ravilious and the \u2018Euston Road School\u2019, and the photographs of Bill Brandt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alan Powers<\/strong> is Professor in Architecture and Cultural History at he University of Greenwich. Alan took a degree and PhD in History of Art at Cambridge, and has written on many aspects of twentieth century visual culture. He is a joint editor of the journal Twentieth Century Architecture for the <em>Twentieth Century Society<\/em>, of which he is Chairman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Architecture Open Lecture Series 2010 \/11 University of Greenwich School of Architecture &amp; Construction Mansion Site, Avery Hill Campus Bexley Road, Eltham, London SE9 2PQ Norbert Singer Lecture Theatre (M055) Wed 6 October 2010 18.30 Alan Powers UNREAL CITY:LONDON SEEN BY POETS AND VISUAL ARTISTS, 1919\u20101939 T. S. 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