The Jg Ballard Book [Paperback]

Introducing The JG Ballard Book, an oversized collection of articles, ideas, interviews, insights and a travelogue... as well as uniquely featuring hi-rez reproductions of over 60 pages of handwritten and typed letters from JG Ballard himself. The JG Ballard Book is 192 (count 'em) full-colour large format pages of fun and fascinating insights into The Seer of Shepperton -- his life, his work and his planar intersections. The JG Ballard Book features contributions from some well-known denizens of the Ballardian universe: Toby Litt suggests Ballard's political ideology may be as inverted as his plots; David Pringle offers up his thoughtful 1984 interview, JG Ballard: Psychoanalyst of the Electronic Age ; Michael Bonsall cuts it open with JG Ballard in the Dissecting Room ; Michael Holliday stitches together all the disconnected Atrocity Exhibition bits in Desperate Measures: A History of the Atrocity Exhibition ; seminal Ballard bibliographer James Goddard contributes actual Ballard documents from his extensive collection, a total of 56 pages of Ballard's handwritten text, interview corrections, lists and more from JGB's intense and experimental late 1960s and 1970s; Rick Poynor paints a picture of how Ballard has been treated by the visual media in What Does JG Ballard Look Like? ; Sam Francis, fresh from his acclaimed study, The Psychological Fictions of JG Ballard, amuses us with an unpublished 2005 Ballard interview; Prof Peter Brigg clocks in with JG Ballard: Time Out of Mind ; Jordi Costa, the creative force behind the JGB exhibition in Barcelona, takes a big screen look with Ballardoscope: Some Attempts at Approaching the Writer as a Visionary ; Paul A. Green amazingly paints a pure Ballard pastiche with The Impossibility Exhibition ; and Rick McGrath re-imagines his 2007 journey to Shanghai to visit the few remains of JG Ballard's youth in the wicked city , with original letters, maps and drawings by Ballard. The book features original cover art by lˆ