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    This Young Monster

    By Charlie Fox

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    This Young Monster is a hallucinatory celebration of artists who raise hell, transform their bodies, anger their elders and show their audience dark, disturbing things. What does it mean to be a freak? Why might we be wise to think of the present as a time of monstrosity? And how does the concept of the monster irradiate our thinking about queerness, disability, children and adolescents? From Twin Peaks to Leigh Bowery, Harmony Korine to Alice in Wonderland, This Young Monster gets high on a whole range of riotous art as its voice and form shape-shift, all in the name of dealing with the strange wonders of what Nabokov once called ‘monsterhood’. Ready or not, here they come...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFitzcarraldo Editions
    Release dateFeb 22, 2017
    ISBN9781910695364
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    Charlie Fox

     Charlie Fox is a writer who lives in London. He was born in 1991. His work has appeared in many publications including  frieze ,  Cabinet ,  Sight & Sound ,  ArtReview ,  The Wire  and  The White Review.

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