Cover art for Museum of Modern Love
Published
Allen & Unwin, September 2016
ISBN
9781760291860
Format
Softcover

Museum of Modern Love

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Recommended by Barb Sampson

Barb takes care of the web orders here at Boffins, and is your contact for book club enquiries. She spends all her spare time curled up on the couch reading and for the last several years has reviewed books on the Afternoon Program on ABC radio Perth.

Marina Abramovic’s 2010 MoMA performance The Artist is Present garnered worldwide attention, both positive and negative. In "The Museum of Modern Love", Heather Rose has crafted a novel around the performance, and it is a strangely compelling one. Performance art isn't really my thing and I admit that before starting this book I might have been inclined to roll my eyes a bit at it, plus I found the main character, Arky, pretty unsympathetic. And yet I thought the novel fascinating and may now need to revise my ideas about performance art. I loved the plethora of strong female characters and the sharp observations about the art world and modern day society.

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