Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Christoph Grunenberg and Robert Knifton
• 1. The Crater of the Volcano: Liverpool and the Avant-Garde
• Christoph Grunenberg and Robert Knifton
• 2. Liverpool Surreal
• Paul Morley
• 3. In Camera: Stories from the City
• Russell Roberts
• 4. The Archive City: Reading Liverpool’s Urban Landscape Through Film
• Les Roberts and Richard Koeck
• 5. Raising the Consciousness? Re-visiting Allen Ginsberg’s Liverpool trip in 1965
• Simon Warner
• 6. Liverpool’s Left Bank
• Darren Pih
• 7. Facts and Fictions: Liverpool and the Avant-Garde in the late-1960s and 70s
• Sam Gathercole
• 8. Filmaktion: New Directions in Film-Art
• Lucy Reynolds
• 9. A Shadow Madness: Memories of Eric’s
• Jaki Florek
• 10. Welcome to the Pleasure Dome: Art in Liverpool 1988-1999
• Bryan Biggs
• 11. Packaging Culture, regulating Cultures: The Re-branded Cuty
• Paul R. Jones and Stuart Wilks-Heeg
• 12. Liverpool Will Never Let You Down
• Bill Drummond
• Mapping Art onto the City
• Timeline
• Darren Pih and Robert Knifton
• Editors and Contributors
• Photography Credits
• Index

About the Author

Christoph Grunenberg has been Director of Tate Liverpool since 2001. He previously held positions in the Collections Division of Tate, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the Kunsthalle Basel and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Robert Knifton is a PhD student on the AHRC-funded collaborative programme between Tate Liverpool and the Manchester Institute for Research in Art & Design at Manchester Metropolitan University. His museum experience includes work at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, and Cube, Manchester.