Anglo-English Attitudes

Geoff Dyer

• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN:
  9780857863348
• Print ISBN:
  9780857864031

Anglo-English Attitudes brings together Geoff Dyer's best journalism and other writing from 1984-99. There are studied meditations on photographers (Robert Capa, William Gedney, Cartier-Bresson) , painters (Bonnard, Gauguin), musicians (Coltrane, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan), and close critical engagements with writers including Camus, Michael Ondaatje and Martin Amis. Also here are idiosyncratic reflections on boxing, comics, Airfix models and Action Man, and often hilarious accounts of his 'misadventures'.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Author biography
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication page
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Introduction
• Blues for Vincent
• Ecce Homo
• Violets of Pride
• Jacques Henri Lartigue
• Henri Cartier-Bresson
• Robert Capa
• If I Die in a Combat Zone
• W. Eugene Smith
• Robert Doisneau
• Leaf Reed Land-er
• William Gedney
• Nan Goldin
• Andres Serrano
• Richard Misrach
• Atkinson Grimshaw
• The Life of Paul Gauguin
• Pierre Bonnard
• Edvard Munch
• Egon Schiele
• The Airfix Generation
• Action Man
• Unpacking My Library
• Comics in a Man’s Life
• Albert Camus
• The Life of Roland Barthes
• Louis Althusser
• The Life of Graham Greene
• Milan Kundera
• Jayne Anne Phillips
• Richard Ford
• Michael Ondaatje
• Cormac McCarthy
• Jay McInerney
• Martin Amis
• Pounding Print
• Muhammad Ali
• John Carey
• Artificial Stupidity
• Fred-Perry: Jameson and Anderson
• The Absent Woman: Janet Malcolm
• ‘My Favorite Things’
• Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
• Rabih Abou-Khalil
• Nils Petter Molvær
• Ramamani
• The Guidebook
• Oradour-sur-Glane
• Parting Shots
• Def Leppard and the Anthropology of Supermodernity
• The Ghost and the Darkness: Safari Notes
• The Wrong Stuff
• Point Break
• Cherry Street
• Acknowledgments
• Read an excerpt from Another Great Day at Sea
• Index of Names