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A review by starness
The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose
5.0
One of the characters asks...How do you define art? How do you answer that simply? To me it's something that is hard to pinpoint it's a feeling, it can bring joy, can cause confusion, it's pain, it's unadulterated happiness, it's an expression a way to connect with an audience it adds colour to dullness and makes people think, question and to look around the world with a different perspective. I love that it means something different to each individual, it's not uniform.
As the author states this is a strange hybrid of fact and fiction and I loved so much venturing into this weird and wonderful world of the artist Marina Abramović. This book took me right inside New York during the 2010 'The Artist Is Present' exhibition at MoMA. I was completely enthralled and transfixed and have really discovered a new appreciation for this form of artistic expression of pushing boundaries and daring to confront and provoke, it's definitely not your run of the mill art exhibit, the novel itself is a work of art. I really enjoyed the unique telling of this story. So interested I'm eager to learn more post reading. I was mesmerised and I wanted to wholly submerge myself in this book. Once fully immersed I could not put this book down!! A real treat and surprise as I knew nothing about the story prior to picking up this book. 5 brilliant elated stars.
As the author states this is a strange hybrid of fact and fiction and I loved so much venturing into this weird and wonderful world of the artist Marina Abramović. This book took me right inside New York during the 2010 'The Artist Is Present' exhibition at MoMA. I was completely enthralled and transfixed and have really discovered a new appreciation for this form of artistic expression of pushing boundaries and daring to confront and provoke, it's definitely not your run of the mill art exhibit, the novel itself is a work of art. I really enjoyed the unique telling of this story. So interested I'm eager to learn more post reading. I was mesmerised and I wanted to wholly submerge myself in this book. Once fully immersed I could not put this book down!! A real treat and surprise as I knew nothing about the story prior to picking up this book. 5 brilliant elated stars.