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Monsters : What do we do with great art by bad people? / Claire Dederer.

By:

Dederer, Claire, 1967- [author.]

Publisher: London : Sceptre, 2024Description: 288 pages ; 20 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781399715072 (pbk.) :

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

NX180.E8

Summary: What do we do with the art of monstrous men? Can we love the work of Roman Polanski and Michael Jackson, Hemingway and Picasso? Should we love it? Does genius deserve special dispensation? Is history an excuse? What makes women artists monstrous? And what should we do with beauty, and with our unruly feelings about it? Claire Dederer explores these questions and our relationships with the artists whose behaviour disrupts our ability to apprehend the work on its own terms. She interrogates her own responses and her own behaviour, and she pushes the fan, and the reader, to do the same.

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Item type	Home library	Class number	Status	Date due	Barcode
2 week loan	Hockney Library DHB Main Collection	700.103/DED (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		7412444944

Originally published: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references.

What do we do with the art of monstrous men? Can we love the work of Roman Polanski and Michael Jackson, Hemingway and Picasso? Should we love it? Does genius deserve special dispensation? Is history an excuse? What makes women artists monstrous? And what should we do with beauty, and with our unruly feelings about it? Claire Dederer explores these questions and our relationships with the artists whose behaviour disrupts our ability to apprehend the work on its own terms. She interrogates her own responses and her own behaviour, and she pushes the fan, and the reader, to do the same.

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