Given: 1' Art 2' Crime: Modernity, Murder and Mass Culture

This exciting new study investigates links between avant-garde art and the aesthetics of crime in order to bridge the gap between high modernism and mass culture, as emblematized by tabloid reports of unsolved crimes. Throughout, author Jean-Michel Rabaté is concerned with two key questions: What is it that we enjoy when we read murder stories? What has modern art to say about murder? Rabaté compels us to consider whether art itself is a form of murder. The book begins with Marcel Duchamp's fa…