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3.82 AVERAGE
3.82 AVERAGE
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Read for Katherout book club, interesting discussion about how it's the interaction between the biography of the artist and the person consuming the art
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I was immediately drawn to this in the shop and lunged to get it 🤣 (There was nobody else there…)
Although enlightening in some aspects, there were many other aspects that felt elementary. We all know about ‘the stain’ with MJ, or ‘the fandom’ with J.K. Rowling, so there were moments where I was reading and wanted to skim the pages 😳
3.5 out of 5 stars for me, thank you ✨ Content warnings below!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Gaslighting
Yes. What a well researched, vulnerable, honest, and challenging exploration of the human shadow. We are flawed creatures. We harm. We have been harmed. We love. We will be loved. Every interaction, whether face to face, or through stereo or tv screens, we are interacting with other flawed humans. Does that mean we stop caring about the tragedy of the flaws? Absolutely not. It means we look inward and work on our own. After all, that is where our agency resides.
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Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual assault
Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Antisemitism
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The first half of this book was really fascinating to me. I couldn't stop talking about it. The second half has long, winding tangents that lost me a bit. I think this was two books thrown together in a way that was sometimes complementary and sometimes... Just a tangent. I was surprised by how much of it read more like a memoir than an exploration of the idea of monster-created art and what we should do with it. That being said, I think this has fundamentally changed how I look at the art of monstrous people and what it means for their audiences. Cool book!
Quotes I liked:
I didn't want to compile a catalogue of monsters. After all, wasn't the history of art simply, already, that?
Quotes I liked:
I didn't want to compile a catalogue of monsters. After all, wasn't the history of art simply, already, that?
The desires of the audience's heart are as crooked as corkscrews. We continue to love what we ought to hate. We can't seem to turn the love off.
Genius gets a hall pass. We count ourselves lucky he walks among us. Who are we to say that he must also behave himself?
Genius is the name we give our love when we don't want to argue about it, when we want our opinion to become fact, when we want to push our obsession onto the next guy, when we don't want to hold our heroes accountable.
If the male crime is rape, the female crime is the failure to nurture.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Rape
Moderate: Pedophilia, Sexism
Minor: Gun violence
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