Description:
1st Edition.
Small World is a biting satire in which Parr observes global tourism and the search for authentic cultures the tourist’s quest has helped to destroy. It explores the difference between the reality and mythology of a tourist honey pot. Whilst Parr’s larger-than-life troupe of tourists appear willing participants in an omnipresent consumer culture they are also bemused victims – at the mercy of larger social forces and locked into their insatiable craving for spectacle. Small World‘s citizens become a symbol of western society’s prosperous freedoms, declaring their power and their rights to travel, to choose and to consume.
Publication Date: 1995
Publisher: Dewi Lewis
Condition: Good condition. Slight yellowing to page edges and small scuff on cover.
Book Size: 30 x 27cm
Pages: 81
Format: Hard Cover
ISBN: 1-899235-051
Description:
1st Edition.
Small World is a biting satire in which Parr observes global tourism and the search for authentic cultures the tourist’s quest has helped to destroy. It explores the difference between the reality and mythology of a tourist honey pot. Whilst Parr’s larger-than-life troupe of tourists appear willing participants in an omnipresent consumer culture they are also bemused victims – at the mercy of larger social forces and locked into their insatiable craving for spectacle. Small World‘s citizens become a symbol of western society’s prosperous freedoms, declaring their power and their rights to travel, to choose and to consume.
Publication Date: 1995
Publisher: Dewi Lewis
Condition: Good condition. Slight yellowing to page edges and small scuff on cover.
Book Size: 30 x 27cm
Pages: 81
Format: Hard Cover
ISBN: 1-899235-051