| Artrage Contributor(s): Aison, Everett (Author) |
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ISBN: 0912887958 ISBN-13: 9780912887951 Publisher: Pleasure Boat Studio OUR PRICE: $15.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | American - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.41" H x 5.51" W x 8.5" (0.51 lbs) 194 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Fiction. Mace Caslon walks into the Metropolitan Museum of Art and throws acid on Universal Woman, a forty-one million dollar Picasso. This provocative act throws him into the center of a media-crazed frenzy: Exploitive television personalities, enraged museum officials, terrified collectors, confused dealers, aggressive lawyers, a U.S. Attorney on the make, instant psychiatrists, shocked ex-lovers, hyper-cool teenagers, hustler artists, and anti-art demonstrators each demand their time in the spotlight. "I thoroughly enjoyed Everett Aison's novel about a regular guy who commits an acte gratuite, the desecration of an art world treasure, and its wildly snowballing consequences. Mace is a funny, slightly sex-obsessed, and not always sympathetic protagonist, for this story of a provocation is itself a provocation. Humane at its core, though, this novel takes a bead on the obscene mix of art, money and the media with the best possible humor"--Molly Haskell. |