{"product_id":"given-1-art-2-crime-modernity-murder-and-mass-culture-9781845191115","title":"Given: 1° Art 2° Crime: Modernity, Murder and Mass Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jean-Michel Rabate\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Liverpool University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Criticism \u0026amp; Theory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47587410739351,"sku":"9781845191115","price":16720.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781845191115.webp?v=1774966713","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/given-1-art-2-crime-modernity-murder-and-mass-culture-9781845191115","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}