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 /5(18). Surreal and provocative, This Young Monster is both a poignant portrayal of life on the margins, and a joyful salute to a group of people who embraced their misfit status to lead beautifully Estimated Reading Time: 40 secs. ‘This Young Monster is a hybrid animal in its own right, suturing biographical essays with stranger things: a “dumb fan letter” to the Beast, a meandering confession from Alice, bombed out after her many years in Wonderland [ ].There’s not enough of this sort /5(18).
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In these nine essays, Charlie Fox uses his fearsome knowledge of popular culture to paint portraits of notable artistic outsiders Fox celebrates the ugly, the weird and the transgressive Surreal and provocative, This Young Monster is both a poignant portrayal of life on the margins, and a joyful salute to a group of people who embraced their misfit status to lead beautifully unconventional lives. This Young Monster. Charlie Fox. Fitzcarraldo. Art writer Fox’s debut is an erstwhile odd child’s ode to the bizarre, the troubling, and the obscure. In nine essays that range in topic from pop phantasmagoria – think Twin Peaks and Edward Scissorhands – to the arcane, Fox dives deep into the lives of figures whose lives were gloriously paranormal. Surreal and provocative, This Young Monster is both a poignant portrayal of life on the margins, and a joyful salute to a group of people who embraced their misfit status to lead beautifully.
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