Erasing the Traces, Tracing Erasures: Cultural Memory and Belonging in Newcastle/Gateshead, UK

Thompson, Zoë Brigley

doi:10.1057/9780230277960_3

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“…Lowry, then, is a disruptive and destructive presence, one who allows the past to speak. 1 For an exploration of other contemporary dreamhouses of cultural regeneration see [3]. …”

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The Haunting of L.S. Lowry: Class, Mass Spectatorship and the Image at The Lowry, Salford, UK

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Abstract:In a series of momentary encounters with the surface details of The Lowry Centre, a cultural venue located in Salford, Greater Manchester, UK, this article considers the fate of the image evoked by the centre's production and staging of cultural experience. Benjamin's notion of 'aura' as inimical to transformations of art and cultural spectatorship is explored, alongside its fatal incarnation in Baudrillard's concept of 'simulation'. L.S. Lowry, I argue, occupies the space as a medium: both as a central figure of transmission of the centre's narrative of inclusivity through cultural regeneration, and as one who communes with phantoms: remainders of the working-class life and culture that once occupied this locale. Through an exploration of various installations there in his name, Lowry is configured as a 'destructive character', who, by making possible an alternative route through its spaces, refuses to allow The Lowry Centre to insulate itself from its locale and the debt it owes to its past.

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“…Lowry, then, is a disruptive and destructive presence, one who allows the past to speak. 1 For an exploration of other contemporary dreamhouses of cultural regeneration see [3]. …”

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The Haunting of L.S. Lowry: Class, Mass Spectatorship and the Image at The Lowry, Salford, UK

Thompson

2013

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Erasing the Traces, Tracing Erasures: Cultural Memory and Belonging in Newcastle/Gateshead, UK

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The Haunting of L.S. Lowry: Class, Mass Spectatorship and the Image at The Lowry, Salford, UK

The Haunting of L.S. Lowry: Class, Mass Spectatorship and the Image at The Lowry, Salford, UK

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