Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma

By: Claire Dederer

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Synopsis: A passionate, provocative and blisteringly smart interrogation of how we experience art in the age of #MeToo, and whether we can separate an artist's work from their biography.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 listener, to do the same. Morally wise, deeply considered and sharply written, Monsters gets to the heart of one of our most pressing conversations.(P) 2023 Penguin Audio

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781399715065
Related ISBNs:: 9781399715034, 9781399715034
Publisher:: Hodder & Stoughton
Date of Addition:: 05/13/23
Copyrighted By:: Claire Dederer
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Narrated By:: Claire Dederer
Categories:: Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Philosophy
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.