Given: 1° Art 2° Crime: Modernity, Murder and Mass Culture

by Jean-Michel Rabaté

Book 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845191129
• ISBN13: 9781845191122
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"