Monsters, a fan's dilemma, Claire Dederer
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Monsters, a fan's dilemma, Claire Dederer
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Index
no index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Monsters
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
Claire Dederer
Sub title
a fan's dilemma
Summary
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 reader, to do the same
Target audience
adult
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