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Cold War Steve Presents... The Festival of Brexit Cold War Steve

Cold War Steve Presents... The Festival of Brexit By Cold War Steve

Cold War Steve Presents... The Festival of Brexit by Cold War Steve


$19.99
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Summary

The first book from the subversive genius behind the Twitter phenomenon McFadden's Cold War.

Cold War Steve Presents... The Festival of Brexit Summary

Cold War Steve Presents... The Festival of Brexit by Cold War Steve

Cold War Steve has been acclaimed as the Brexit Bruegel and a modern-day Hogarth or Gillray. His Twitter feed, McFadden's Cold War, has become a cult phenomenon, with over 120,000 followers (and counting). This book contains the prime cuts of his elaborate, satirical photo collages from his Twitter feed, with further exclusive, unseen new work.

Begun as a personal reprieve from an often-bleak political climate, Cold War Steve (Christopher Spencer in real life) started collaging images of longstanding Eastender Steve McFadden (aka Phil Mitchell) into Cold War-era scenarios, using a GBP3 smartphone app while commuting. As `Brexit Britain' begins to take shape his output has taken an increasingly surreal, satirical turn - in what some are calling `furious absurdism' - creating dystopian, absurdly funny Brexit-era landscapes populated with a rotating cast of political, cultural or otherwise newsworthy (or not) figures, and ever-present Fray Bentos pies. A pitch-perfect marriage of Internet meme culture and the political lampoon, Cold War Steve satirizes our increasingly incongruous-seeming popularpolitical culture with quintessentially British humour.

In a time when the UK's exit from the EU looms large, Cold War Steve offers us a satirical escape from a world that seems to have slipped its moorings from reality.

Cold War Steve Presents... The Festival of Brexit Reviews

'Exemplifies an angry new movement ... the new furious absurdism' - The Economist
'Online therapy for those beaten down by political despair' - Guardian
'A modern Hogarth or Gillray ... He's newsy and angry. It's what Brits do best. Don't engage with these people's arguments because they don't have any. Just flay them alive with humour, sarcasm and art' - Jon Savage
'No one has caught the mood of Brexit Britain as acutely as Cold War Steve' - The Art Newspaper
'One of the funniest accounts on Twitter' - Kathy Burke
'Apocalyptic but side-splitting' - Financial Times

About Cold War Steve

Cold War Steve is Christopher Spencer. He has been tweeting as @ColdWar_Steve since 2016.

Additional information

GOR009757358
9780500022894
0500022895
Cold War Steve Presents... The Festival of Brexit by Cold War Steve
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Thames & Hudson Ltd
2019-03-07
144
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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