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Written by Wendy Holden
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Wendy Holden has satirised many aspects of modern life, including
marriage, motherhood, eco-fascism and Hollywood. Her latest novel, Gallery Girl, finds her turning her beady eye on the art world ...and to great comic effect
People
might not know much about art – or think they don’t – but we’ve all got
a view on the contemporary variety. Views that don’t beat about the
bush, in most cases. Unmade beds, pickled sharks, great rivers of wax
seeping out of buildings, projections of bums on the Houses of
Parliament… They all provoke passionate comment. It was this that
persuaded me that Gallery Girl, my latest novel and a comedy
about the lust, loot and lunacy of the world of knickers nailed to
chopping boards, would strike a chord with everyone.
Art is,
after all, never out of the news. At the moment, scientists are trying
to establish whether Stendhal Syndrome – being overcome with ecstatic
feelings when standing in front of a great work of art – really exists.
I’m certain it does because I experienced its exact opposite – nausea
and despair – in front of some black rubber flags, a stuffed cat on top
of an unfinished IKEA cabinet, a corpse face-down in a swimming pool and
other appalling examples of contemporary art at the Venice Biennale
earlier this year. This antithesis of Stendhal Syndrome I call Sewell
Syndrome, in honour of the great critic Brian, whose tolerance threshold
for bad new work is impressively low. Sewell Syndrome is, nonetheless,
the force behind my own new work.
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 Usborne Publishing has appointed Lisa Watts as Director of Digital to head up a team researching and developing ebooks and apps using Usborne unique content. Watts has been with Usborne for 15 years as New Media Manager, and her editorial association with the company goes back to 1975.
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From Books & Media
Bloomsbury had the most reviews across the newspapers and magazines covered by Books & Media in the seven days ending 8 August, with 21 reviews, followed closely by Faber with 20 reviews.
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Written by Liz Thomson
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Hardie Grant Books London have moved to Dudley House, North Suite, 34-35 Southampton Street, London WC2E 7HF. Telephone + 44 207 420 9340. Email "info at hardiegrant dot co uk".
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Among
the Books & Media highlights for the coming week:
Radio: On Loose Ends (Saturday, BBC Radio 4) Peter Curran is joined by the historian, presenter and author Simon Schama, whose new book SCRIBBLE, SCRIBBLE, SCRIBBLE (The Bodley Head) presents his own unique view of the world we live in. R4’s Book of the Week is WE ARE A MUSLIM, PLEASE (Heinemann), Zaiba Malik's memoir of growing up in the Seventies and Eighties.
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