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ISBN10: 0912887958
ISBN13: 9780912887951
Publisher: Pleasure Boat Studio
Published: Oct 14 2020
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.41 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780912887951
Publisher: Pleasure Boat Studio
Published: Oct 14 2020
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.41 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Fiction. Mace Caslon walks into the Metropolitan Museum of Art and throws acid on Universal Woman, a forty-one million dollar Picasso. This provocative act throws him into the center of a media-crazed frenzy: Exploitive television personalities, enraged museum officials, terrified collectors, confused dealers, aggressive lawyers, a U.S. Attorney on the make, instant psychiatrists, shocked ex-lovers, hyper-cool teenagers, hustler artists, and anti-art demonstrators each demand their time in the spotlight. I thoroughly enjoyed Everett Aison's novel about a regular guy who commits an acte gratuite, the desecration of an art world treasure, and its wildly snowballing consequences. Mace is a funny, slightly sex-obsessed, and not always sympathetic protagonist, for this story of a provocation is itself a provocation. Humane at its core, though, this novel takes a bead on the obscene mix of art, money and the media with the best possible humor--Molly Haskell.
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