Ebook: Reality hunger : a manifesto
Author: Shields David
- Tags: Literature Modern -- 21st century -- History and criticism., Literary manifestos., Modernism (Literature), BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary., Literature Modern.
- Year: 2011
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- City: New York
- Edition: 1st Vintage books ed
- Language: English
- epub
"Reality Hunger is a manifesto for a burgeoning group of interrelated but unconnected artists who, living in an unbearably artificial world, are breaking ever larger chunks of 'reality' into their work. The questions Shields explores the bending of form and genre, the lure and blur of the real play out constantly around us, and Reality Hunger is a radical reframing of how we might think about this 'truthiness': Read more...
Abstract: "Reality Hunger is a manifesto for a burgeoning group of interrelated but unconnected artists who, living in an unbearably artificial world, are breaking ever larger chunks of 'reality' into their work. The questions Shields explores the bending of form and genre, the lure and blur of the real play out constantly around us, and Reality Hunger is a radical reframing of how we might think about this 'truthiness': about literary licence, quotation, and appropriation in television, film, performance art, rap, and graffiti, in lyric essays, prose poems, and collage novels."