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Title: Monsters
Condition: New
Subtitle: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?
ISBN-10: 1399715070
EAN: 9781399715072
ISBN: 9781399715072
Publisher: Sceptre
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
Release Date: 23/05/2024
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 129mm
Author: Claire Dederer
Genre: Arts & Photography
Topic: Music Dance & Theatre, Social Sciences, Gender Sex & Relationships, Biography, Society & Culture, Philosophy & Spirituality
Type: Social Issues
Item Width: 24mm
Item Weight: 220g
Release Year: 2024
Description:

'How rare and nourishing this sort of roaming thought is and what a joy to read' MEGAN NOLAN, Sunday Times

'An exhilarating, shape-shifting exploration of the perilous boundaries between art and life' JENNY OFFILL

Pablo Picasso beat his partners. Richard Wagner was deeply antisemitic. David Bowie slept with an underage fan. But many of us still love Guernica and the Ring cycle and Ziggy Stardust.

And what are we to do with that love? How are we, as fans, to reckon with the biographical choices of the artists whose work sustains us?

Wildly smart and insightful, Monsters is an exhilarating attempt to understand our relationship with art and the artist in the twenty-first century.

'An incredible book, the best work of criticism I have read in a very long time' NICK HORNBY

'Part memoir, part treatise, and all treat' New York Times

'Clever and provocative' Daily Telegraph

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