"Prepare to be challenged in the best possible way while you view images that travel through time and around the world."
An absolute wow of a book which offers and encourages new thoughts and feelings. I follow Stephen Ellcock on social media, he collates images and celebrates the beautiful, different, weird and wonderful and I often stop, pause, and ponder as I scroll. His first book All Good Things, was totally gorgeous, and a LoveReading Star Book.
In The Book of Change Stephen states: “I am continually driven by an overwhelming, gnawing frustration at the injustices of the world and an intense desire for something better”. He goes on to explain that this book is a response to his lifelong feeling of alienation and dislocation, and the current situation we find ourselves in 2021.
His introduction sings of his wish for justice, equality, and peace for all. He looks into the past, observes the present, and reaches out to the future, to information, mass media, and power, and he addresses the issues that are plaguing our planet. He offers seven sections, starting with Source, and ending with Hope, and boy, did the images contained within evoke my emotions.
I found myself being drawn into each one, sometimes caught by the obvious, sometimes looking past and through into the hidden, the darkness, the suggestive heart. At times I felt uncomfortable, I was definitely challenged, and was left feeling that this book had taken on a life of its own within my thoughts and feelings.
The Book of Change, so darkly beautiful and provocative, has been chosen as a LoveReading Star Book.
A brilliant awakening to our vast shared potential and creative energy for change, from the beloved social media curator Stephen Ellcock.
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A brilliant awakening to our vast shared potential and creative energy for change, from the beloved social media curator Stephen Ellcock. Featuring 240 reproductions of art, photography and objects, selected from cultures through history and across the globe, as well as from living artists such as Zanele Muholi, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, Ellen Gallagher, Shirin Neshat and Gillian Wearing, this is an extraordinary collection of powerfully inspiring imagery on the nature of challenge and change.
The Book of Change features in the following genres: History, Gift Books, Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure, History of art, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, History and Archaeology, Stationery and miscellaneous items, The Arts: treatments and subjects, The Arts, Political activism / Political engagement, Politics and government, Society and Social Sciences, Non-Fiction Books of the Month, Recommendations, Star Books
Hardback. £22.50, down from the £25.00 cover price. In Stock.
The Book of Change was written by Stephen Ellcock and published by September Publishing
The Book of Change has 288 pages
£22.50, reduced from £25.00. In Stock.
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