{"id":24875,"title":"Objektophilia","dimensions":"12 x 19 cm, language : English, 236 p., publisher : MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE, London, ISBN: 978-1-910055-65-6","date_begin":"2020-01-01","material":"ink, paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":141,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist's novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2031/6","stream_count_app":11,"permalink":"objektophilia","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/053/202/medium_500/objektophilia.jpeg?1585852864","cached_actor_names":"Susan Finlay ","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Artist Novel","nl":"Artist Novel","fr":"Artist Novel"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/053/202/large/objektophilia.jpeg?1585852864","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary sinopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003ePart metafiction, part design criticism, with a touch of armchair psychoanalysis,\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eObjektophilia\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003ebegins in London in 2014, where a nameless design critic and her partner X reside in a decrepit but Grade II listed tower block. It ends some months later among the\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003efin de si\u0026egrave;cle\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003ewonders of Vienna in an echo of the successive encounters of Schnitzler\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eLa Ronde\u003c/em\u003e. Possessed by the ruins of social housing and its accompanying ideologies, but nonetheless in possession of those ruins\u0026rsquo; original brushed-steel light-fittings, the critic soon discovers that her craving for these and similarly \u0026lsquo;undemanding things\u0026rsquo; has usurped her more conventional\u0026mdash;or fleshly\u0026mdash;desires.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eEach of Susan Finlay\u0026#39;s\u0026nbsp;novels is its own thing, often unfashionably realist and written in the past tense.\u0026nbsp;However, the author doubts that she\u0026nbsp;would produce the books she\u0026nbsp;does if she\u0026nbsp;hadn\u0026rsquo;t been to art college.\u0026nbsp;Film is a huge influence on everything she\u0026nbsp;writes, as is the nouveau roman.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.susanfinlay.co.uk/objekt.html\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":3791,"name":"Susan Finlay ","category":{"en":"Author","nl":"Auteur","fr":"Auteur"}}]}