Description: Given: 1� Art 2� Crime: Modernity, Murder and Mass Culture (Critical Inventions) [Hardcover] Rabate, Jean-Michel Product Overview 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 Duchamp's 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, 'Étant donnés', 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 Benjamin's description of Eugene Atget's famous photographs of deserted Paris streets as presenting 'the scene of the crime'; and Ralph Roff's 1997 exhibition, which implied that modern art is indissociable from forensic gaze and a detective's outlook, a view first advanced by Edgar Allan Poe. Read more Details Publisher : Liverpool University Press (September 1, 2006) Language : English Hardcover : 228 pages ISBN-10 : 1845191110 ISBN-13 : 15 Item Weight : 1.1 pounds Dimensions : 8.6 x 1.2 x 6.3 inches Best Sellers Rank: #9,709,872 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1,798 in Mystery & Detective Literary Criticism #2,437 in Modernism Literary Criticism (Books) #5,720 in Coping with Suicide Grief #1,798 in Mystery & Detective Literary Criticism #2,437 in Modernism Literary Criticism (Books) We have been selling used books since 2012, and we've learned that the most important thing is doing good business. Honesty is our policy. Free Shipping We ship worldwide. We have multiple warehouses around the world, so please note the extended handling time on certain listings.
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ISBN: 1845191110
ISBN10: 1845191110
ISBN13: 9781845191115
EAN: 9781845191115
MPN: does not apply
Brand: Sussex Academic Press
GTIN: 09781845191115
Number of Pages: 228 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Given: 1° Art 2° Crime : Modernity, Murder and Mass Culture
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Publication Year: 2006
Item Height: 0.8 in
Subject: Murder / General, Criticism & Theory, Aesthetics, Suicide
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 17.6 Oz
Item Length: 9.3 in
Author: Jean-Michel Rabate
Subject Area: Art, Philosophy, True Crime, Psychology
Series: Critical Inventions Ser.
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
