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Add MS 88938/3/26
- Record Id:
- 040-001564025
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000673106
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000427.0x0001f2
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88938/3/26
- Title:
- Resource Material
- Scope & Content:
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1. Single sheet cutting (fragment) from Prospect (January 1998) concerning Lady Diana Spencer ('the canonisation of Diana painfully illustrates the decline of rational political feminism').
2. Typed quotations from Robert O Paxton, Anatomy of Fascism (2004) together with a set of related notes by Ballard. 2 sheets typescript and 3 sheets autograph manuscript. Appears to relate to Ballard, Kingdom Come (2006).
3. Newspaper article by A N Wilson concerning painting by Lucian Freud entitled 'Benefits Supervisor Sleeping' (Daily Mail, 15 May 2008). The article has been received by fax (header: 16 May 2008, Claire Walsh). 6 sheets. The fax has other (non-Ballard) material in typescript on the verso.
4. Various Surrealist and other art postcards (not used), together with photographs of Ballard's copy of The Violation by Paul Delvaux, and a photograph of the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao. (20 items.)
5. Four aerial images (2007, Europa Technologies Digital Globe) of residential area with Shanghai co-ordinates. Also, a close-up aerial photograph of the Ballard family home redeveloped as a restaurant (photograph appears in Rick McGrath, 'Empire of the Son: Exploring J G Ballard's Shanghai Home & Haunts': http://www.jgballard.ca/shanghai/jgb_shanghai_home.html).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000673106
036-000786687
040-001564025 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88938 : The Papers of J. G. Ballard
Add MS 88938/3 : J G Ballard: Works
Add MS 88938/3/26 : Resource Material - Hierarchy:
- 032-000673106[0003]/036-000786687[0027]/040-001564025
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88938
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1998
- End Date:
- 2008
- Date Range:
- 1998-2008
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Page 2 of the fax of 16 May 2008 has a portion torn away at the bottom right corner - no loss of text.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)