Given 1 Degree Art 2 Degrees Crime: Modernity, Murder And Mass Culture - Couverture rigide

Rabate, Jean-Michel

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1845191110 ISBN 13 : 9781845191115

Editeur : Liverpool University Press, 2006

Synopsis

Investigates links between avant-garde art and the aesthetics of crime in order to bridge the gap between high modernism and mass culture, as emblematised by tabloid reports of unsolved crimes. Throughout Jean-Michel Rabate is concerned with two key questions: what is it that we enjoy when we read murder stories? and what has modern art to say about murder? Indeed, Rabate compels us to consider whether art itself is a form of murder. The book begins with Marcel Duchamps fascination for trivia and found objects conjoined with his iconoclasm as an anti-artist. The visual parallels between the naked woman at the centre of his final work, Etant Donnes, and a young woman who had been murdered in Los Angeles in January 1947, provides the specific point of departure. The text moves onward to Steven Hodel, the 'Black Dahlia' murder; Walter Benjamins description of Eugene Atgets famous photographs of deserted Paris streets as presenting the scene of the crime; and Ralph Roffs 1997 exhibition, which implied that modern art is indissociable from forensic gaze and a detectives outlook, a view first advanced by Edgar Allan Poe.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Liverpool University Press
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1845191110
• ISBN 13: 9781845191115
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 228