{"id":10897,"date":"2012-01-31T02:50:52","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T02:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=10897"},"modified":"2012-01-31T04:33:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T04:33:53","slug":"las-pozas-panoramas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/01\/31\/las-pozas-panoramas\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Pozas panoramas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photo by Carlos Ernesto Guadarrama Mu\u00f1oz.<\/em><\/p>\n

How soon things change. In 2006 when I wrote something about Las Pozas<\/a>, the unfinished concrete fantasia constructed by Edward James at Xilitla in the Mexican jungle, there was little information about the place on the web. A couple of years later photos had appeared on Flickr and Monty Don had been there with TV cameras for the BBC’s Around the World in 80 Gardens<\/em><\/a>. Now, thanks to 360cities.net, we have a collection of panoramic views inside James’ platforms, plazas and stairways to nowhere. See the complete set of views here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Photo by Jose Luis Perez.<\/em><\/p>\n

Edward James described himself as a poet (and is credited as such on his gravestone), but he’s far better known as one of the primary patrons of Surrealist art and a lifelong proponent of the Surrealist ethos, hence Las Pozas whose construction occupied him up to his death in 1984. In addition to being the model for Magritte’s La reproduction interdite<\/em><\/a> (1937), James also converted Monkton, his home in England, into a Surrealist showcase. It’s a place I’ll be writing about at greater length when I find the time.<\/p>\n

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Photo by Jose Luis Perez.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 The panoramas archive<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 Return to Las Pozas<\/a>
\n\u2022 Las Pozas and Edward James<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photo by Carlos Ernesto Guadarrama Mu\u00f1oz. How soon things change. In 2006 when I wrote something about Las Pozas, the unfinished concrete fantasia constructed by Edward James at Xilitla in the Mexican jungle, there was little information about the place on the web. A couple of years later photos had appeared on Flickr and Monty … Continue reading “Las Pozas panoramas”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,2,44,12,18,19],"tags":[1511,3297,269,115],"class_list":["post-10897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-painting","category-photography","category-surrealism","category-television","tag-edward-james","tag-monty-don","tag-panoramas","tag-magritte"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2PL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}