The Shimmering Beast

by Steve Reinke

By turns funny and abstruse, The Shimmering Beast is the newest book by accomplished video artist Steve Reinke, which brings together his best pieces of prose. Hybrids of criticism, fiction, and personal essays, each chapter takes on another's work, while reinterpreting the role of the critic--as supplicant, as cannibal, as skeptic. Reinke looks at the visual arts with a particularly literary eye, notably in his shrewd writing on Philip...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0945323212
• ISBN13: 9780945323211
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Whitewalls
• Length: 119 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.6" x 7.2"