“Finding freshness and innovation in our everyday clichés through different angles of observation, the SS06 collection becomes a collage like composition of familiar sources in an unfamiliar way. When combining these elements their original identity ceases to exist and is replaced by a new foreign one.”
The creation of selfhood or identity is achieved through the […]
Jonathan Coe is the winner of the £30,000 BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2005 for his book Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of BS Johnson published by Picador.
B.S. Johnson was a brilliant working-class writer, compared to Joyce and so wedded to innovation that he cut holes in the pages of his novels. […]