Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 24-May 29, 2012, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, June 15-Sept. 9, 2012, and the Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Sept. 28, 2012-Jan. 2, 2013.
HMSG copy 39088019786243 gift of Andrea Rosen Gallery.
Contents:
Artists in the exhibition -- Lenders to the exhibition -- Fairy tales, monsters, and the genetic imagination / Mark W. Scala -- Fairy-tale collisions / Jack Zipes -- Metamorphoses of the monstrous / Marina Warner -- The extant vamp (or the) ire of it all : fairy tales and genetic engineering / Suzanne Anker -- Plates -- Checklist of the exhibition
Summary:
The curator of a new exhibition of conceptions of monsters at Nashville's Frist Center for the Visual Arts presents essays that discuss the historical context of anthropomorphism in many cultures' mythology and folklore that inspired the featured artists.
