{"product_id":"artrage-paperback","title":"Artrage - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eFiction. Mace Caslon walks into the Metropolitan Museum of Art and throws acid on Universal Woman, a forty-one million dollar Picasso. This provocative act throws him into the center of a media-crazed frenzy: Exploitive television personalities, enraged museum officials, terrified collectors, confused dealers, aggressive lawyers, a U.S. Attorney on the make, instant psychiatrists, shocked ex-lovers, hyper-cool teenagers, hustler artists, and anti-art demonstrators each demand their time in the spotlight. \"I thoroughly enjoyed Everett Aison's novel about a regular guy who commits an acte gratuite, the desecration of an art world treasure, and its wildly snowballing consequences. Mace is a funny, slightly sex-obsessed, and not always sympathetic protagonist, for this story of a provocation is itself a provocation. Humane at its core, though, this novel takes a bead on the obscene mix of art, money and the media with the best possible humor\"--Molly Haskell.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51256909136095,"sku":"9780912887951","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/0RXAsBPVnS9780912887951.webp?v=1787536328","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/artrage-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}