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| Don’t knock Weston-super-Mare, home of Banksy’s Dismaland | Don’t knock Weston-super-Mare, home of Banksy’s Dismaland |
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| As a resident of Weston-super-Mare I am incandescent with rage at the patronising insults thrown at the town by Jonathan Jones in his review of Banksy’s Dismaland (Funfairs are more subversive than Banksy’s joyless theme park, 22 August). His description of the “grim promenade” and “desperate-looking big wheel” could not be further from the truth. The big wheel is the same as the big wheels in every town. Is the London Eye desperate-looking? The promenade is wide, spacious, newly paved and has sculptured seats of stone and granite which in themselves could be considered pieces of modern art. | As a resident of Weston-super-Mare I am incandescent with rage at the patronising insults thrown at the town by Jonathan Jones in his review of Banksy’s Dismaland (Funfairs are more subversive than Banksy’s joyless theme park, 22 August). His description of the “grim promenade” and “desperate-looking big wheel” could not be further from the truth. The big wheel is the same as the big wheels in every town. Is the London Eye desperate-looking? The promenade is wide, spacious, newly paved and has sculptured seats of stone and granite which in themselves could be considered pieces of modern art. |
| Related: In Dismaland, Banksy has created something truly depressing | |
| Weston is a very pleasant seaside town with wonderful views across the bay to Steep Holm island (a nature reserve) and Wales, and has sunsets to beat those in more exotic places. There is a wealth of good Victorian architecture which I doubt Jonathan Jones encountered as he penned his venomous article against Banksy and the other artists as well as the town hosting the exhibition. | Weston is a very pleasant seaside town with wonderful views across the bay to Steep Holm island (a nature reserve) and Wales, and has sunsets to beat those in more exotic places. There is a wealth of good Victorian architecture which I doubt Jonathan Jones encountered as he penned his venomous article against Banksy and the other artists as well as the town hosting the exhibition. |
| As I see it, Dismaland is not meant to create joy but to delve beneath the surface of our shallow consumerist lives and expose all the falsities and unpleasantness of modern life. It is not a critique of Weston-super-Mare itself, which has no theme parks and no gaudy seaside entertainments as in Blackpool and other resorts. I would like to ask Jonathan Jones to spend a week in all of Britain’s seaside resorts and then make a comparison. I think he will find that Weston-super-Mare fares quite well.Maureen BezzantWeston-super-Mare, Somerset | As I see it, Dismaland is not meant to create joy but to delve beneath the surface of our shallow consumerist lives and expose all the falsities and unpleasantness of modern life. It is not a critique of Weston-super-Mare itself, which has no theme parks and no gaudy seaside entertainments as in Blackpool and other resorts. I would like to ask Jonathan Jones to spend a week in all of Britain’s seaside resorts and then make a comparison. I think he will find that Weston-super-Mare fares quite well.Maureen BezzantWeston-super-Mare, Somerset |
| Related: The sheer joy of Banksy’s Dismaland | Peter Bradshaw | |
| • You can’t get much for £3 these days. Is it just a coincidence that a ticket for Banksy’s Dismaland should be exactly the same as the cost of becoming a registered supporter of the Dismalabour party?Tony StaveacreBlagdon, North Somerset | • You can’t get much for £3 these days. Is it just a coincidence that a ticket for Banksy’s Dismaland should be exactly the same as the cost of becoming a registered supporter of the Dismalabour party?Tony StaveacreBlagdon, North Somerset |
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