{"product_id":"9781836434207","title":"Rubble","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhen the cities we call home – and the memories that stitch them together – are reduced to dust and ash, what comes next?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRubble\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of the art of aftermath. In this radical new portrait of the Blitz, we follow nine individual bombsites, and a work of art or architecture created amidst each site, to trace how artists forged new ways of representing the world in the shadow of war.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe works explored in \u003ci\u003eRubble\u003c\/i\u003e were uniquely shaped by the Luftwaffe's destruction. From Francis Bacon's visceral paintings to the defiant glamour of Cecil Beaton's bombsite photographs, \u003ci\u003eRubble\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates how the Blitz changed British art – and therefore its people – forever. Altair Brandon-Salmon vividly explores how art was uniquely placed to demonstrate the anxieties and fears of ordinary people, and the competing hopes and utopias that emerged for a better future.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn showing how life, art, and architecture emerged from the wreckage of war and transformed London as we know it today, \u003ci\u003eRubble\u003c\/i\u003e offers an urgent perspective on how cities should work in the aftermath of conflict, and crucially for whom.","brand":"Simon and Schuster","offers":[{"title":"eBook","offer_id":60381267394846,"sku":"9781836434207","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.simonandschuster.com\/products\/9781836434207","provider":"Simon and Schuster","version":"1.0","type":"link"}