Justine Frank/ Roee Rosen: Sweet Sweat

Künstler: Frank, Justine ; Rosen, Roee . Verleger: Sternberg Press . Herausgeber: Extra City, Center For Contemporary Art, Anwerp . Datum: 2009. Englisch . 8to. (Oktavformat). farb. illustr. OKlappkarton/ softcover. 15x20 cm, 238 pages, 34 b/w ill., aus dem Klappentext: 'Sweet Sweat, the only novel by Belgian artist Justine Frank, is unusual, to say the leasta blend of feminism, pornography, Judaism, and art, written in French in 1931. Its heroine is a Jewish girl named Rachel, born in the South of France, who has an outstanding talent for debauchery and crime. She takes up with the sybaritic Count Urdukas and sets out with him on an odyssey of pleasure and corruption marked by bizarre events in which horror and humor mingle. This comprehensive new edition of Franks novel includes an essay and an extensive biography by Israeli American writer and artist Roee Rosen and a timeline tracing key moments in Franks life, providing a definitive analysis of this once-scandalous novel and its historical and cultural contexts.' by Roee Rosen: The art of the fictive Jewish Belgian painter Justine Frank has long been neglected and suppressed. Her work joins erotic motifs and Jewish imagerya disturbing, hallucinatory combination. The same mixture of smut and Jewish tropes appears in the only book she authored, the pornographic novel Sweet Sweat (1931). '. sehr gutes Exemplar/ near mint copy.