Claire Dederer
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
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Monsters is a thought-provoking exploration of the boundaries between art and life, challenging the reader to consider their own responses and behavior towards artists whose behavior disrupts our ability to understand their work. It is a passionate, provocative, and blisteringly smart interrogation of how we experience art in the age of #MeToo, and whether we can separate an artist's work from their biography. The book is morally wise, deeply considered, and sharply written, and will provoke many conversations.
Format: Hardback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 11 May 2023
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
Funny, lively, and convivial ... how rare and nourishing this sort of roaming thought is and what a joy to read
MEGAN NOLAN, SUNDAY TIMES
An exhilarating, shape-shifting exploration of the perilous boundaries between art and life
JENNY OFFILL
Monsters is extraordinary - engaging, enraging, provocative, and brilliant
ANN PATCHETT
A passionate, provocative, and blisteringly smart interrogation of how we experience art in the age of #MeToo, and whether we can separate an artist's work from their biography.
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?
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 understand the work on its own terms.
She interrogates her own responses and behaviour, and she pushes the fan, and the reader, to do the same.
Morally wise, deeply considered, and sharply written, Monsters gets to the heart of one of our most pressing conversations.
A blisteringly erudite and entertaining read . . . It's a book that deserves to be widely read and will provoke many conversations.
NATHAN FILER
Wise and bold and full of the kind of gravitas that might even rub off
LISA TADDEO
An incredible book, the best work of criticism I have read in a very long time
NICK HORNBY
Weight: 490g
Dimension: 163 x 242 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781399715034
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