Dimensions: image: 195 x 186 mm
Copyright: © The estate of James Boswell | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: This is James Boswell’s, "The Station," from the Tate collection. There's an almost anxious energy here, capturing a fleeting moment of urban life. What cultural echoes do you hear in it? Curator: The image pulls at threads of cultural memory. The clock looms, doesn't it? It's a symbol of modernity's relentless march, its control over our lives. Note the newspapers, the anonymous figures. Editor: The newspapers feel key. Are they a symbol of information overload? Curator: Perhaps, or of shared experience, mass media shaping a collective consciousness. It’s a moment in time, captured and multiplied. Editor: That makes me see how fleeting the moment is in the print, like a memory. Curator: Yes, Boswell froze a fleeting moment, transforming it into an artifact of collective experience.
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These are two of six lithographs James Boswell created for display in the British Pavilion at the 1939 New York World’s Fair, where Misha Black, AIA Chairman, worked as a designer. Boswell depicts himself outside Collet’s bookshop on Charing Cross Road in conversation with James Holland to the right. From the left, Jim Fitton, the third of the ‘three Jameses’, glances towards them. Early issues of Left Review, which introduced their cartoons, were edited at Collet’s. The setting for The Station is probably Marlborough Road, which closed in 1939. Gallery label, September 2024
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