Fairy tales, monsters, and the genetic imagination
By: edited by Mark W. Scala ; essays by Suzanne Anker ... [et al.].
Contributors: Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Nashville, Tenn.); Winnipeg Art Gallery; Glenbow Museum
Publisher: Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Vanderbilt University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Nashville, Tenn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 119
ISBN-13: 9780826518149
Subjects: Modern Art; Monsters in art; Themes, motives; Exhibitions; Fantasy in art
Description: The curator of a new exhibition of conceptions of monsters at Nashville's Frist Center for the Visual Arts presents essays that discuss the historical context of anthropomorphism in many cultures' mythology and folklore that inspired the featured artists.
Notes: Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 24-May 29, 2012, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, June 15-Sept. 9, 2012, and the Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Sept. 28, 2012-Jan. 2, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Artists in the exhibition --; title: Lenders to the exhibition --; title: Fairy tales, monsters, and the genetic imagination  -- Mark W. Scala; title: Fairy-tale collisions  -- Jack Zipes; title: Metamorphoses of the monstrous  -- Marina Warner; title: The extant vamp (or the) ire of it all : fairy tales and genetic engineering  -- Suzanne Anker; title: Plates --; title: Checklist of the exhibition.