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The Oil Company And British Modernism, A Histoy
"The Shell Guides, beginning in the early 1930s (contemporary with the development of Cockfosters itself), marked the replacement of this particular Metroland of fixed stations and daily commutes with another kind of relationship to travel and the landscape: one based upon the supposed freedom of the car, enabling the exploration of Britain's strange outposts. Yet at the same time the Shell Guides were part of an attempt to establish a distinctively British modernism." New Statesman 03/19/08
"The Shell Guides, beginning in the early 1930s (contemporary with the development of Cockfosters itself), marked the replacement of this particular Metroland of fixed stations and daily commutes with another kind of relationship to travel and the landscape: one based upon the supposed freedom of the car, enabling the exploration of Britain's strange outposts. Yet at the same time the Shell Guides were part of an attempt to establish a distinctively British modernism." New Statesman 03/19/08
Posted March 23, 2008 07:16 PM
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