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"Reality Hunger is a manifesto for a burgeoning group of interrelated but unconnected artists who, living in an unbearably artificial world, are breaking ever larger chunks of 'reality' into their work. The questions Shields explores the bending of form and genre, the lure and blur of the real play out constantly around us, and Reality Hunger is a radical reframing of how we might think about this 'truthiness': about literary licence, quotation, and appropriation in television, film, performance art, rap, and graffiti, in lyric essays, prose poems, and collage novels." Read more... Abstract: "Reality Hunger is a manifesto for a burgeoning group of interrelated but unconnected artists who, living in an unbearably artificial world, are breaking ever larger chunks of 'reality' into their work. The questions Shields explores the bending of form and genre, the lure and blur of the real play out constantly around us, and Reality Hunger is a radical reframing of how we might think about this 'truthiness': about literary licence, quotation, and appropriation in television, film, performance art, rap, and graffiti, in lyric essays, prose poems, and collage novels."

Who reads Reality Hunger : a Manifesto?

Author

David Shields

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781299009929

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, History

Rating

3.62 / 5 (151 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13