World's end / Charlie Gere.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gere, Charlie, author.

Series:

Spatial Politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Worlds End (London, England)--History--20th century.

Worlds End (London, England).

Worlds End (London, England)--Social life and customs.

Gere, Charlie.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (166 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Goldsmiths Press, [2022]

Summary:

Charlie Gere's account of growing up in the World's End area of West London during the Cold War combines local history, cultural history, memoir, and a strong sense of the apocalyptic. Once a rundown part of Chelsea at the wrong end of the King's Road, the World's End has long been a place for bohemian writers and artists, including Turner, Whistler, Beckett, Bacon, and Bacon's muse Henrietta Moraes, all of whom evinced an appropriate apocalyptic sensibility. After World War II, in which the area suffered severe bombing, it became a center of the counterculture that emerged from what Jeff Nuttall called ?Bomb Culture,? formed by the threat of nuclear annihilation.0The famous boutique Granny Takes a Trip opened there in 1966, joined later on by Hung On You, Puss Weber's Flying Dragon Tea Room, and the commune Gandalf's Garden. The area also featured trepanning aristocrats and pet lions, among other eccentricities. In the 1970s, the World's End was the center of punk rock. Gere's parents arrived as part of a wave of gentrification, and Gere, born and brought up there, witnessed its social and cultural evolution. As an adolescent, he was traumatized by the prospect of nuclear war. He has lived long enough to see the World's End now bearing the marks of out-of-control neoliberalism and its grotesque accompanying inequality. But this too shall pass as worlds end.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Acknowledgments

Contents

1 World's End

2 The Angel Standing in the Sun

3 The Sun Shone on the Nothing New

4 After the Rain

5 The London Pale

6 Slouching Towards Bethlehem

7 Them

8 Culture and Anarchy in the UK

9 Learning to Love the Bomb

10 The Drowned World

Bibliography.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-912685-97-3

OCLC:

1305844611