The Alpine Fantasy of Victor B: and Other Stories - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852429267 ISBN 13: 9781852429263

Publisher: Serpent's Tail, 2007

Synopsis

The Alpine Fantasy of Victor B and Other Stories brings together seventeen of Britain’s leading contemporary artists in one collection.

Moving, humorous, and sometimes deeply macabre, these stories deal with dementia, mortality, mass murder, and madness. The Alpine Fantasy of Victor B and Other Stories is a haunting exploration of the impulses that drive today’s artists.

About this title

About the Author:

Jeremy Akerman is an artist and curator. He edited and co-produced Active Genital and runs short courses in curating at the University of the Arts, St Martins College. He is currently curating Wandering Star: Contemporary British and Korean Landscapes - an exhibition of new artwork for a group show in Seoul in 2006.

Review:

A thought-provoking insight into today's visual-arts scene? For those fascinated by the current wave of Y (and not so Y) BAs, this will provide an interesting, if wilfully elliptical insight into their inner worlds -- Vogue ?The Alpine Fantasy of Victor B has unnatural events and weird characters in abundance, sometimes amusing and often unsettling * but always scarily intriguing? Big Issue *

About this edition

• Publisher: Serpent's Tail
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1852429267
• ISBN 13: 9781852429263
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Akerman Jeremy, Daly Eileen