{"id":5282,"title":"Blood Rites of the Bourgeoisie","dimensions":"13.1 x 19.5 cm, 127 p, language: English, publisher: Book Works, ISBN: 978 1 906012 23 6","date_begin":"2010-01-01","material":"ink, paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2024/831","stream_count_app":33,"permalink":"blood-rites-of-the-bourgeoisie","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":"Stewart Home","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Book","nl":"Boek","fr":"Livre"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/010/694/large/Artistnovel_054.jpg?1342085347","poster_credits":"(c)M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy does the art world hypocritically promote female creative talent but simultaneously fail to accord women artists the respect given to their male counterparts? When women aged 20 to 40 make up the bulk of the audience for art in London, why are they so under-represented in top curational posts and how exactly does this glass ceiling operate? Just what has happened to the feminist movement now that the likes of Madonna and Lady Gaga are being held up as role models for prepubescent and teenage girls? Can the background to these and related questions be illuminated by taking penis enlargement spam and replacing the generic 'she' and 'her' it invokes with the names of well-known artists and curators? Stewart Home believes the answer to this last question is \"YES\", and so he used endless extreme fantasies about famous art world women as the starting point of his outrageous cyber-novel \u003ci\u003eBlood Rites of the Bourgeoisie\u003c/i\u003e. Written in the second person and in part generated from spam emails, \u003ci\u003eBlood Rites of the Bourgeoisie\u003c/i\u003e is a shot in the arm for prose fiction; and a kick up the backside for the male dominated London art world.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.bookworks.org.uk/node/155\"\u003eNovel website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiteraire synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e Waarom is de kunstwereld zo hypocriet om vrouwelijk creatief talent te promoten maar slaagt ze er ondertussen niet in om vrouwelijke kunstenaars met hetzelfde respect te behandelen als hun mannelijke tegenhangers? Hoe kan het dat vrouwen tussen 20 en 40 jaar oud het gros van het Londense kunstpubliek uitmaken, maar toch zo ondervertegenwoordigd zijn in de posities van topcurators, en hoe werkt dat glazen plafond dan precies? Wat is er gebeurd met het feminisme dat types als Madonna en Lady Gaga worden naar voren geschoven als rolmodellen voor (pre)pubers? Kan de achtergrond van deze en andere relevante vragen worden belicht door spamreclame voor penisvergrotingen te nemen en het generische ‘zij’ en ‘haar’ te vervangen door de namen van beroemde kunstenaars en curators? Volgens Stewart Home is het antwoord op die laatste vraag ‘ja’, en dus nam hij oneindig veel extreme fantasieën over beroemde vrouwen in de kunstwereld als het vertrekpunt voor zijn buitensporige cyberroman *The Blood Rites of the Bourgeoisie*. Het boek, geschreven in de tweede persoon en deels ontstaan uit spam-e-mails, is een shot in de ader voor proza – en een trap tegen het achterste van de door mannen gedomineerde Londense kunstwereld. [Novel website](http://www.stewarthomesociety.org/luv/bloodrites.htm) [Novel website](http://www.bookworks.org.uk/node/155)\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":1857,"name":"Stewart Home","category":{"en":"Author","nl":"Auteur","fr":"Auteur"}}]}