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Project Cleansweep : beyond the post military landscape of the United Kingdom

Title
Project Cleansweep : beyond the post military landscape of the United Kingdom / Dara McGrath ; texts, Rachel Andrews [and three others] ; editors, Vinny Gregan, Kasia Kaminska and Dara McGrath.
Author
McGrath, Dara
Publication
  • Heidelberg : Kehrer, [2020]
  • ©2020

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Additional Authors
  • Andrews, Rachel
  • Gregan, Vinny
  • Kaminska, Kasia
  • Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, host institution
  • Town Hall (Buxton, Derbyshire, England), host institution
  • Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Great Britain), host institution
Description
208 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, maps, portrait; 25 cm
Summary
Project Cleansweep takes its name from a Ministry of Defence report issued in 2011. The report assessed the risk of residual contamination at sites in the United Kingdom used in the manufacture, storage, and disposal of chemical and biological weapons from World War I to the present day. Over 4,000 square kilometres of the landmass was appropriated for military use in the 20th century. Photographs of more than eighty sites take us to Dorset and Devon, the Peak District, the woodlands of Yorkshire, and the countryside of the Salisbury Plain, from the coastlines of East Anglia, the West Counties and Wales to the remote Scottish Highlands and the Irish Sea. The pastoral myths of the bucolic British landscape - of simple nature, a golden past - are disrupted by material realities embedded in the landscape itself. Exhibition: OPCW Annual Conference United Nations, The Hague, The Netherlands (25.11. - 29.11.2019) / Town Hall, Buxton, Derbyshire, UK (April 2020) / DSTL (Defence Science and Technology Laboratory) Porton Down, Wiltshire, UK (May 2020).
Alternative Title
Beyond the post military landscape of the United Kingdom
Subject
  • McGrath, Dara > Exhibitions
  • Photography, Artistic
  • Hazardous waste sites > Great Britain > Pictorial works > Exhibitions
  • Pollution in art > Exhibitions
  • Hazardous waste sites
  • Pollution in art
  • Great Britain > Pictorial works > Exhibitions
  • Great Britain
Genre/Form
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • Exhibition, pictorial works.
Exhibitions (note)
  • Catalog of an exhibition held at the OVCW/OPCW Annual Conference, United Nations, The Hague, November 25-29, 2019; the Town Hall, Buxton, April 2020 ; DSTL, Porton Down, May 2020.
Call Number
JQE 21-86
ISBN
  • 9783868289671
  • 3868289674
LCCN
9783868289671
OCLC
1150860109
Author
McGrath, Dara, photographer.
Title
Project Cleansweep : beyond the post military landscape of the United Kingdom / Dara McGrath ; texts, Rachel Andrews [and three others] ; editors, Vinny Gregan, Kasia Kaminska and Dara McGrath.
Publisher
Heidelberg : Kehrer, [2020]
Copyright Date
©2020
Type of Content
still image
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Exhibitions
Catalog of an exhibition held at the OVCW/OPCW Annual Conference, United Nations, The Hague, November 25-29, 2019; the Town Hall, Buxton, April 2020 ; DSTL, Porton Down, May 2020.
Added Author
Andrews, Rachel, writer of supplementary textual content.
Gregan, Vinny, editor.
Kaminska, Kasia, editor.
McGrath, Dara. Photographs. Selections.
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, host institution.
Town Hall (Buxton, Derbyshire, England), host institution.
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Great Britain), host institution.
Other Standard Identifier
9783868289671
Research Call Number
JQE 21-86
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