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The museum of modern love / Heather Rose.

By: Publisher: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2018Copyright date: ©2016Description: 284 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781760633394
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 823.4 23
Awards:
  • Winner of the Stella Prize 2017; Winner of the Margaret Scott Prize 2017; Winner of the Christina Stead Prize 2017.
Summary: She watched as the final hours of The Artist is Present passed by, sitter after sitter in a gaze with the woman across the table. Jane felt she had witnessed a thing of inexplicable beauty among humans who had been drawn to this art & had found the reflection of a great mystery. What are we? How should we live? If this was a dream, then he wanted to know when it would end. Maybe it would end if he went to see Lydia. But it was the one thing he was not allowed to do. Arky Levin is a film composer in New York separated from his wife, who has asked him to keep one devastating promise. One day he finds his way to The Atrium at MOMA and sees Marina Abramovic in The Artist is Present. The performance continues for seventy-five days and, as it unfolds, so does Arky. As he watches and meets other people drawn to the exhibit, he slowly starts to understand what might be missing in his life and what he must do.
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Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks 823.4 ROS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL JSNWL Book Club - August 2018 67947
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Originally published: 2016.

"A novel inspired by Marina Abramovic."--Cover.

She watched as the final hours of The Artist is Present passed by, sitter after sitter in a gaze with the woman across the table. Jane felt she had witnessed a thing of inexplicable beauty among humans who had been drawn to this art & had found the reflection of a great mystery. What are we? How should we live? If this was a dream, then he wanted to know when it would end. Maybe it would end if he went to see Lydia. But it was the one thing he was not allowed to do. Arky Levin is a film composer in New York separated from his wife, who has asked him to keep one devastating promise. One day he finds his way to The Atrium at MOMA and sees Marina Abramovic in The Artist is Present. The performance continues for seventy-five days and, as it unfolds, so does Arky. As he watches and meets other people drawn to the exhibit, he slowly starts to understand what might be missing in his life and what he must do.

Winner of the Stella Prize 2017; Winner of the Margaret Scott Prize 2017; Winner of the Christina Stead Prize 2017.

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