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Paperback Given: 1° Art 2° Crime: Modernity, Murder and Mass Culture Book

ISBN: 1845191129

ISBN13: 9781845191122

Given: 1° Art 2° Crime: Modernity, Murder and Mass Culture

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Investigates 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...

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