Waterloo-City, City-Waterloo

Posted on 18 October 2018 by Leanne Shapton

Leanne Shapton, author of Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris and Swimming Studies, creates an authorly and artistic response to travel, work and being a passenger part of a series of twelve books tied to the twelve lines of the London Underground In Waterloo City, City Waterloo , Leanne Shapton creates an authorly and artistic response to the Waterloo and City line s particular length and those who travel on it Shapton observes the particularities of the line s rush hour passengers and imagines a number of their interior monologs, in both verbal and visual detail The variety of commuters ruminations and obsessions result in a detailed and illustrated breakdown of the line s distance and time its brevity, its passage between only two stations, its existence as almost primarily a shuttle for office workers going between their homes and the business district of the City The layout of the book reflects the two stops on the line, one half of the book representing the Waterloo City ourgoing journey, and the second half, the City Waterloo return voyage. Best Download Waterloo-City, City-Waterloo [ Author ] Leanne Shapton [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr Leanne Shapton s inspiration for this book was The endless toggle between two stations The format of the book is an abstract one, with two parts that start from either side of the book So, open from the front and you will find a section headed OUTGOING , while turning to the back will reveal a second part called RETURN.This book is not so much made up of continuous prose so much as a series of vignettes, all of whom are set off by people who the author has presumably seen on the trains Leanne Shapton s inspiration for this book was The endless toggle between two stations The format of the book is an abstract one, with two parts that start from either side of the book So, open from the front and you will find a section headed OUTGOING , while turning to the back will reveal a second part called RETURN.This book is not so much made up of continuous prose so much as a series of vignettes, all of whom are set off by people who the author has presumably seen on the trains As you read through, you will find several descriptions of passengers on a train travelling from Waterloo station to Bank Station at the heart of the City of London, mostly talking about their ap...The Waterloo City Line is easily the shortest and least used of the 11 current London Underground lines It runs between two busy stations, Waterloo on the South Bank beneath the National Rail station and Bank in the historic heart of the capital s financial district The trip is just under 1 miles in length and takes barely 4 minutes, which is still longer than the similar Times Square to Grand Central Terminal shuttle along 42nd Street in Manhattan.Waterloo City City Waterloo consists of The Waterloo City Line is easily the shortest and least used of the 11 current London Underground lines It runs between two busy stations, Waterlo...This is really a three star book but I love Leanne Shapton and can t bear to lower her rating average here currently 3.07 at the time of this review.What s odd about this book is the structural conceit that it describes a morning commute and the home bound return in the evening But the line itself is an incredibly short shuttle that while it does lend itself to wonderfully evocative superficial descriptions of train passengers and the dips into pri...This book is experimental and lovely It treats the reader as an intelligent being, while presenting a lot of stuff views of people, photographs, imagery as though it was run through a Brian Eno ambient track filled with guitars by My Bloody Valentine People in the subway are observed as one liners Sunglasses like the grill of a car A man s perspective A woman s perspective Sexism at work Internal thoughts Why s David s name before mine in an e mail sent from somebody Does she pre This book is experimental and lovely It treats the...A mix of stream of conciousness and multimedia display This book is somewhere between a book, a play, a short film and a multimedia presentation.We dip in and out of various people commuting on London s shortest line, sometimes we only see the outside, sometimes their texts and emails and sometimes their innermost thoughts and feelings While ther is no cohesive narrative, no feeling that the passengers are all on the same journey at the same time, there is a spectrum of people The fragments o A mix of stream of conciousness and multimedia display This book is somewhere between a book, a play, a short film and a multimedia presentation.We dip in and out of various people commuting on London s shortest line, sometimes we only see the outside, sometimes their texts and emails and sometimes their innermost thoughts and feelings Wh...A rather lovely little volume, which reminded me quite a bit of Geoff Ryman s 253 which was originally a website and then turned into a book in the late 90s Little snapshots of the lives of passengers on the Waterloo City London Underground line, ...I love Leanne Shapton and this book is really interesting but it is quite slight It s subtitle is A Sketchbook and it is very much that sketches, snippets and doodles taken from an outward and return journey by tube, and it also c...Interesting artistic approach to the musings that may occur during the short commute from Waterloo to Bank A must read for Londoner s interested in the tube, or for people who enjoy a looser prose Perfect length for a commute too3.5An interesting graphic novel sketchbook way of capturing people on a tube journey Wished I was creative enough to do something like this myself

English
18 October 2018

Leanne Shapton