Meat Art & Surrealist Objects: a collection of oneiric mischief

a collection of oneiric mischief

Title:   Meat Art and Surrealist Objects: a collection of oneiric mischief
Author:   Eric W. Bragg
ISBN 13: 978-1-425724-07-8
ISBN 10: 1-4257-2407-8
Pages: 102
Size: 8.5" x 11"
Softcover Price: $34.99
Hardcover Price: $44.99
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Meat Art & Surrealist Objects is a photographic collection of playfully charged oneiric objects assembled from meat, seafood, vegetation and other mundane, household items. Undeniably organic and ephemeral in nature, these objects share a common savagery and black humor (umor) that will provide many hours of fun and decadent viewing pleasure for the whole family. Rotting brains, buzzing flies, profaned cunts, mannequin gloved hands, erotic cyborgs and of course, meat sculpture: these are the stuff from which dreams (and nightmares) are made! Not intended for those with weak stomachs or prude dispositions.

With introductions by Bruno Jacobs and Dale Michael Houstman. More than 60 full-sized, full-color photos. Available in hardcover. Suitable for children and adults of all ages.

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Reviews:

Thankfully, Eric creates meals as they were not meant to be: viscerally playful. He animates food-creatures and dream-devices that happen to be edible, perhaps ghosts of dinners past - culinary messages from the future... Survivors of some food-fight apocalypse bringing us the good news that dinner is served! We see play, erotica and roll-your-sleeves-up silliness at work here. By comparison, Dali's lobster telephone is but stone-age buffoonery!

– Xtian

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…Many of the objects of Eric Bragg tell us about life itself, its plasticity, agony, cruelty and extravagances, but above all about a whole approach imbued with an inherent radicalized violent humor that has always remained one of surrealism’s main principles. An analogical exactitude of an especially and literally incisive kind is the method behind these objects.

– Bruno Jacobs

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The Surrealist Object – most of all – is an objection to objectification, replying to all Capitalist inquiries with rude and insoluble gestures proving that some things will not dissolve in liquid assets....Eric Bragg’s book is a magazine of such gestures.

– Dale Michael Houstman