Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire
A Confidential Report
Iain Sinclair ; with original prints and drawings by Oona Grimes

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Editor(s)

Iain Sinclair

Publication, year

London : Penguin Books, 2009

Scope

581 Pages, illustrated, 20 cm.

ISBN

9780141012742

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Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire is Iain Sinclair's personal record of the area of north-east London where he has lived for forty years. It is a documentary fiction, seeking to capture the spirit of place, before Hackney succumbs to mendacious green papers, eco boasts, sponsored public art and the Olympic Park gnawing at its edges. It is a message in a bottle, chucked into the flood of the future.

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Person as subject

Oona Grimes

Location

Cabinet 28 - 5: Culturele benadering van de (stedelijke) ruimte

Extra themes

Walk / stroll / explore / hang out

Remarks