{"product_id":"cally-spooner-on-false-tears-9783775746816","title":"Cally Spooner: On False Tears","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA tear, engineered in 1856 by Rodolphe—the adulterous lover of Flaubert’s Madame Bovary—is dripped onto a breakup letter and sent to the heroine via messenger. “There ought to have been some tears on this; but I can’t cry; it isn’t my fault,” he says, but not to her. Then, having filled a drinking glass with water, Rodolphe dips his finger and lets a big drop fall onto the paper, leaving a pale stain on the ink. Cally Spooner’s monograph documents a large eco-system of 40+ works which takes the incident of this false tear as a lynch pin, to reflect on the outsourcing, hijacking, erosion, decay, or destruction of personal, subjective utterance, in a 21st-century hyper connected and financialized climate. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor the monograph, Spooner describes each work in an active, present-tense voice, intercut with diagrams, drawings, culled, and censored correspondence. New essays bring into focus central themes that play out in Spooner’s transdisciplinary performance work.","brand":"Hatje Cantz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49538593194327,"sku":"9783775746816","price":41.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783775746816.jpg?v=1731909266","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cally-spooner-on-false-tears-9783775746816","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}