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Book Title
Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination
Publication Name
Fairy Tales, Monsters and the Genetic Imagination
Title
Fairy Tales, Monsters and the Genetic Imagination
Author
Mark W. Scala
Contributor
Mark W. Scala (Edited by)
Format
Trade Paperback
EAN
9780826518149
ISBN
9780826518149
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Genre
Art
Release Date
28/02/2012
Release Year
2012
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
0.5in
Item Length
11in
Item Width
9.5in
Item Weight
21.9 Oz
Publication Year
2012
Topic
Subjects & Themes / Science Fiction & Fantasy, General, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, Subjects & Themes / General
Number of Pages
160 Pages

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This catalog explores the psychological and social implications contained in the hybrid creatures and fantastic scenarios created by contemporary artists whose works will appear in the exhibition Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination, which opens at Nashville's Frist Center for the Visual Arts in February 2012. Curator Mark Scala's introductory essay focuses on anthropomorphism in the mythology, folklore, and art of many cultures as it contrasts with the dominant Western view of human exceptionalism. Scala also provides an art historical context, linking the visual fabulists of today to artists of the Romantic, Symbolist, and Surrealist periods who sought to transcend oppositions such as rationality and intuition, fear and desire, the physical and the spiritual. Discussing how artists adapt traditional stories to give mythic form to the very real dilemmas of contemporary life, Jack Zipes's "Fairy-Tale Collisions" centers on Paula Rego, Kiki Smith, and Cindy Sherman. From a generation of women who have attained prominence since the 1980s, these artists alter fairy-tale imagery to subvert or rewrite social roles and codes. In "Metamorphosis of the Monstrous," Marina Warner discusses works in the exhibition in the context of historical conceptions of monsters as expressions of alterity, bestiality, or sinfulness. Her reminder that contemporary monster images offer "a promise and a warning about the variety, heterogeneity, and possible combinations and recombinations in the order of things" sets the stage for Suzanne Anker's essay, punningly titled "The Extant Vamp (or the) Ire of It All: Fairy Tales and Genetic Engineering." Considering representations of hybrid bodies by Patricia Piccinini, Janaina Tschape, Saya Woolfalk, and others, which evoke imagined beings of the past as a way to envision the recombinant creatures that may lie in the future, Anker shows how artists explore the social, ethical, and future implications of biological design and enhanced evolution. Accompanying an exhibition of contemporary art in which depictions of marvelous creatures and fantastic narratives provide both chills and delights, the essays in Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination explore the meaning of this fabulist revival through the lenses of social and art history, literature, feminism, animal studies, and science.

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Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN-10
0826518141
ISBN-13
9780826518149
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109124832

Product Key Features

Book Title
Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination
Author
Mark W. Scala
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Subjects & Themes / Science Fiction & Fantasy, General, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year
2012
Genre
Art
Number of Pages
160 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
11in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
9.5in
Item Weight
21.9 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
N8217.F28f35 2012
Copyright Date
2012
Lccn
2011-024519
Dewey Decimal
700/.415
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
In Collaboration with Frist Art Museum Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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