The Alpine Fantasy of Victor B: And Other Stories - Couverture souple

Daly, Eileen; Akerman, Jeremy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1852429267 ISBN 13 : 9781852429263

Editeur : Serpent's Tail, 2006

Synopsis

Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, and Andy Warhol all wrote fiction ? but there has never previously been a compilation of the prose of British artists. The Alpine Fantasy of Victor B and Other Stories brings together seventeen of Britain?s leading contemporary artists in one collection. Moving, humorous and sometimes deeply macabre, these stories deal with dementia, mortality, mass murder and madness. A young woman derails a Virgin train, killing twenty people, as an experiment in conquering death; a boy fakes an accident to get the attention of the girl of his dreams; an alpine hiker advocates murder as an environmental clean-up solution; and time goes backwards as we witness the ?unlynching? of a paedophile by the local neighbourhood watch. Challenging and expanding notions of art and what artists do, The Alpine Fantasy of Victor B and Other Stories is a haunting exploration of the impulses that drive today?s artists.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Eileen Daly is a freelance book editor. She is a board member of New Contemporaries and is currently working on The Animate! Book, a book about art and animation to be published in 2006.

Jeremy Akerman is an artist and curator. He edited and co-produced Active Genital and runs short courses in curating at the University of the Arts, St Martins College. He is currently curating Wandering Star: Contemporary British and Korean Landscapes - an exhibition of new artwork for a group show in Seoul in 2006.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Serpent's Tail
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1852429267
• ISBN 13: 9781852429263
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible