Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 823.92 EAN: 9781840681062 ISBN: 1840681063 Label: Creation Books Manufacturer: Creation Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: August 15, 2003 Publisher: Creation Books Sales Rank: 2065918 Studio: Creation Books
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A progressive and uncompromising work that merges fiction and theory to create an intense yet gloriously deviant look at the world through the eyes of controversial Brit-artist, Jake Chapman (of the Chapman Brothers). With protagonists who-like his mutated Nike-wearing child mannequins-exhibit similar aberrations, Chapman engages with Freudian theory, genetic engineering and consumerism, to create a highly original and intellectually stimulating work that is as challenging and confrontational as any of his acclaimed works of art.
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Rating: - Completely insane
Being an avatar of all things ridiculously and needlessly complicated, I picked this book up at The Strand Bookstore. I knew by staring at the first page that I had, indeed, encountered a literary monstrosity so completely indulgent that I would have to force myself to read through it word-for-word just to give myself the pleasure in the knowledge that I could mentally endure something so pretentious. The book is a dense mixture of ranting, archaic codes, numbers, and patterned letters. For example ... Read More
