
Sunsets and Dogshits
Sean Ashton(Author)
Alma Books Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 22. October 2007
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-1-84688-045-2 (ISBN)
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Description
Presented as a collection of articles about apocryphal artworks, exhibitions, books and other cultural phenomena, "Sunsets and Dogshits" follows the convention of a "collected writings" book. Most pieces adopt a well-recognized format - for example a catalogue essay for an exhibition, a book review or an item of sports correspondence - but at the same time they incorporate incongruous elements or attempt to see things from inverted perspectives. For example, "The Hudson Variation" is a review of a book about chess hooliganism, while "Whipping Boys" imagines the criminal memoir written from the view point of professional victims, and 'The George Carnegie Award' is a critical review of the writers shortlisted for the best use of a semicolon in the English language. Witty, trenchantly funny, flittingly flirting with genres as diverse as poetry, philosophy, biography, cookery books, volumes on municipal architecture, government investigations into national disasters and technical manuals, "Sunsets and Dogshits" occupies a unique place in modern fiction and is destined to become a classic of its kind.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Surrey
United Kingdom
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 201 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84688-045-2 (9781846880452)
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Saun Ashton lectures and teaches at Wimbledon School of Art and Canterbury School of Art. He has a postgraduate degree in sculpture from the Royal College of Art, and a Ph.D. in art from Goldsmiths College. Whilst writing his Ph.D., Ashton came to the conclusion that artworks can be divided into two categories: those that exist to be experienced and those that exist to be written about. It was then he began to consider the notion of an artwork that didn't actually exist at all, that could be experienced only through a written appraisal. He soon expanded the meaning of the term 'artwork' to include cultural phenomena of all kinds.