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London Calling!Almost through with my literary walk around the London Orbital in the company of Iain Sinclair, I deserve a break to rest my aching feet (figuratively speaking, of course, as I have made the walk in my mind, on my sofa, and have more pain in my back in real life). After hundreds and hundreds of smallprint pages describing the surroundings of the M25, I took the liberty of walking around inside London instead, over a century earlier, and visually, instead of textually, in the compa...
Publisher's NoteList of Illustrations--Doré's London: All 180 Images from 'London, A Pilgrimage'
What's fun about Gustave Dore's London pictures is that they are a great historical document of London life and they also often serve as a nice commentary on the quality of life in London at this time.I guess some contemporaries of Dore were bugged that Dore had so many pictures of the darker side of London - the poor, the homeless, the working & living conditions for London's lower class. Maybe these dissenters were also bugged by the fact that it's these pictures of London's dark side that rea...
Amazing images, depicting a London more reminiscent of modern India in its overcrowding.
This book is AMAZING. Very, very detailed drawings of all aspects of Victorian London society, from the high to the low. The scenes captured are often so strange, they almost look sci-fi or some weird dystopian alternate reality (just look at the cover drawing!). They make me want to read more Dickens novels.
Sono illustrazioni su Londra realizzate da Dorè, cosa volete di più?
If you can get past the florid Victorian prose, sentimentality, and imperialist prejudices, this is a rare and valuable peek into London as it was. Dore's etchings overflow with figures, crammed into every corner. A few faces have real character, though the faces of women and girls are largely blank and expressionless. The images are useful for costume and architectural research. The text is full of detailed descriptions of the industry, work, and pass times of Londoners, if biased toward the ed...
Some of Dore’s best work (and this from the man who set the gold standard for all to follow). This handsome volume has over a 180 illustrations of day to day life in London of the mid 19th century. Beautiful and horrible at the same time. An absolute must have.
Brilliant, haunting kaleidoscope of what life in 19th century London looked like. Forget the glorious, booming industrial age metropolis which inspired steam punk; Doré offers an incisive peek into the brutal, relentless toil whose sweat and tears built the British Empire. When the pictures of the well-dressed, well-behaved, bored society appear, they look almost out of place. But they are in place; even if only to highlight the contrast to the city's not so fancy underbelly.Garnished with Dore'...
Really good record of 1800s London. Incredibly detailed. It reminded me of the artist FS Smith but as well as recording the architectural details of buildings, Dore records the lives of Londoners. It can be caractured at times but it's a great record. The book includes a good amount of drawings and at a good size and reasonable quality. The book could benefit with a longer and more detailed introduction and captions.
Working largely with the illustrations, a most excellent experience.
5 stars for Doré, but only one for print quality in this etition.
