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The Eleven Associates of Alma-Marceau (Hardcover)
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The Eleven Associates of Alma-Marceau (Hardcover)
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Summer in Paris. British art student Adam King undertakes an
internship at a contemporary art museum. An encounter with an
unusual collective of young people looking to change the world,
along with a strange revelation in front of The Mona Lisa, sees him
facing much more than his own coming-of-age. Against a backdrop of
late capitalism, media and surveillance, 'The Eleven Associates of
Alma-Marceau' not only asks questions about how people's images,
words and lives are given a platform, used and manipulated in the
digital era, but also invites readers to question the very nature
of what they perceive. Within this modern-day story about painting,
visual communication and how creative ideas are responded to by
society, Leonardo, of course, is still ahead of the game, more than
five hundred years after his death... ********** The Old School
Writers Circle is a group of friends who periodically meet up to
discuss art, writing and books. The current members studied at the
same school in Birmingham, UK, in the late 1980s and early 1990s,
and now live in various locations around England. Famous literary
alumni of the school include, somewhat eclectically, J.R.R.
Tolkien, Lee Child and Jonathan Coe, all of whom are on the
circle's ever-growing list of influences. Projects can be serious
as well as playful, confronting unusual and challenging themes
through stories that do not necessarily fit squarely within
conventional genres. For their debut publication, 'The Eleven
Associates of Alma-Marceau', the starting point was a shared love
of Paris and The Louvre - inspired in part by numerous trips across
the Channel by members of the circle over the past twenty-five
years. The other driving force was the long-standing interest of
circle member Matt Price in esoterica and unusual optical phenomena
in the history of painting - ideas explored and brought together by
the circle in the form of this curious, engaging and
thought-provoking novel. 'The smart move here is to pursue meaning
in painting through the medium of fiction' --Nicholas Alfrey, Art
Historian
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