{"product_id":"given-1deg-art-2deg-crime-modernity-murder-and-mass-culture-9781845191115","title":"Given: 1° Art 2° Crime: Modernity, Murder and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInvestigates 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 with Marcel Duchamp's fascination for trivia and found objects conjoined with his iconoclasm as an anti-artist. The visual parallels between the naked woman at the centre of his final work, 'Étant donnés', and a young woman who had been murdered in Los Angeles in January 1947, provides the specific point of departure. The text moves onward to Steven Hodel, the 'Black Dahlia' murder; Walter Benjamin's description of Eugene Atget's famous photographs of deserted Paris streets as presenting 'the scene of the crime'; and Ralph Roff's 1997 exhibition, which implied that modern art is indissociable from forensic gaze and a detective's outlook, a view first advanced by Edgar Allan Poe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Esthetics of Murder: Of Sirens, Traces and Auras; Freud's Da Vinci Code: Interpretation as Crime; Duchamp's fait-divers: Murder as a \"Read-Made\"; Scene of the Crime: Nothing to See!; Scalpel and Brush, Pen and Poison: The Ekphrasis of Murder; Who Killed Bergotte? The Patch and the Corpse; Surrealist Esthetics of Murder: From Hysteria to Paranoia; Murder as Kitsch, Abstraction and Ritual; Conclusion - How to Think \"Not Abstractly\"; Index.","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51360198689111,"sku":"9781845191115","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781845191115.jpg?v=1754126956","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/given-1deg-art-2deg-crime-modernity-murder-and-mass-culture-9781845191115","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}