Jonathan Meades
Articles by Jonathan Meades
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High art lite
- 12 March 2009
- 4 comments
Kenneth Clark’s 1969 series Civilisation was a landmark in television, and it continues to influence programme makers to this day – for the worse
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Where's the beef?
- 04 December 2008
- 3 comments
The Slow Food movement has an almost millenarian belief in the virtue of amalgamating gastronomy with ecology. It will take more than such utopian thinking, however, to transform Britain's woeful food culture
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Scents and sensibility
- 02 October 2008
- 9 comments
Perfumes: the Guide Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez Profile Books, 384pp, £20
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Modernist master
- 21 August 2008
- 2 comments
Despite the carping of anti-modernist reactionaries, Le Corbusier remains the greatest architect of the 20th century and a colossal study just published does justice to his protean creativity
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Wearisome familiarity
- 07 August 2008
- 1 comment
The Sixties Unplugged: a Kaleidoscopic History of a Disorderly Decade Gerard DeGroot Macmillan, 528pp, £20
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Ancient and modern
- 10 July 2008
In the 1920s O G S Crawford invented aerial archaeology, one of many services this eccentric Marxist misanthrope performed for the study of antiquity. Jonathan Meades on a man who loved the past and hated his contemporaries
Culture
The last modern architect
- 15 May 2008
Richard Rogers's achievements as a maker of extraordinary buildings are in danger of being obscured by his status as a new Labour panjandrum
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Ideal homes exhibition
- 27 March 2008
Villages of Vision: a Study of Strange Utopias Gillian Darley Five Leaves Publications, 341pp, £14.99
