The Lives Of The Artists
2023
Artist Novel, 18 x 13 cm, 199 p., language: English, publisher: JOAN, London, ISBN: 978-1-7392596-3-1.
Materials:
Collection: Collectie M HKA.
Literary synopsis
Through an examination of regionalism, class, race, gender, and sexuality that alludes to the American New Narrative (albeit with extra Brit Bitch LOLZ), cult author Susan Finlay attempts to determine what success (and the lack of) means to a creative individual, as well as what defines a person as such. Essentially, a love letter to bohemianism, The Lives of the Artists offers a unique, if topsy-turvy, vision of aesthetic endeavour, in which gossip becomes a political tactic, and the gutter is the stars.
Authorship: Artist Author, Fictional Author.
Creative Strategy: Artwork-Novel Parallel Lives, Artworks Biographical Origin , Artworks Cite Novel, Fictional Artist Creates Artworks , Research novel.
Genre: Absurdist, Autobiography, Bildungsroman, Comedy, Diagrams , Diary, Documentary Fiction, Künstlerroman, Memoir, Portrait, Prose poetry, Roman à clef.
Publishing: Art Books Publishing House, Non-profit Art Organization, Publishing House.
Theme: American Culture, Art , Art World, British Culture, Capitalism , Chance, Childhood , Class, Culture Industry, Customs, Cynicism, Education System, Everyday Life, Film, Friendship, Identity, Language, Mass Media, Memory, Money, Sex, Sexuality, Social Media, Socio-Political Critic, States of the Self, Subjective Experience.
