{"id":8223,"title":"The House of Fear: notes from Down Below","dimensions":"21.1 x 14 cm, 216 p, language: English, publisher: E.P. Dutton, ISBN: 978-0525246480","date_begin":"1988-01-01","material":"ink, paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2026/127","stream_count_app":12,"permalink":"the-house-of-fear-notes-from-down-below","description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"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":"Book","nl":"Boek","fr":"Livre"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/020/831/large/Untitled010.jpg?1393413401","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA ","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe events and locales of World War II in Europe provide the setting for a series of four surrealistic autobiographical novellas that concern the author\u0026#39;s romantic and artistic involvement with Max Ernst and her subsequent descent into madness.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome have suggested that at least some of the stories should not be understood literally but as magic realism \u0026mdash; a response to her own mental state and events at the time. The sense of a hybrid world (half recognisable, half fantasy) was characteristic of her playful and vividly coloured paintings as well, many of them populated by strange and slightly menacing figures \u0026mdash; elongated women in big cloaks, many-armed lizard-snakes, creatures half-human-half-wolf, people turning into birds, faces within bodies \u0026mdash; often combined with arcane occult or religious symbols.\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiteraire synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDe gebeurtenissen en plaatsen van de Tweede Wereldoorlog in Europa vormen de achtergrond voor een reeks van vier surrealistische, autobiografische novelles over de romantische en artistieke verwikkeling van de auteur met Max Ernst, en haar daaropvolgende afdaling in de waanzin.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVerhouding van de roman tot de kunstenaarspraktijk\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMogelijk moet minstens een deel van de verhalen niet letterlijk worden begrepen, maar wel als magisch realisme \u0026ndash; een antwoord op haar eigen mentale toestand en toenmalige gebeurtenissen. De suggestie van een hybride wereld (half herkenbaar, half fantasie) was eveneens typisch voor haar speelse schilderijen in levendige kleuren, veelal met geheimzinnige occulte of religieuze symbolen en bevolkt door vreemde en enigszins dreigende figuren \u0026ndash; langgerekte vrouwen in grote mantels, veelarmige hagedisachtige slangen, halfmens-halfwolf-creaturen, mensen die in vogels veranderen, gezichten middenin lichamen.\u003c/p\u003e"},{"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":2077,"name":"Leonora  Carrington","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}