Alex Coles: Tainted Love: From Nina Simone to Kendrick Lamar Bjarne MelgaardSternberg Press, 2023, Softcover, 96 pages, 18 12 cm Titled after Soft Cell's version of the original 1965 Gloria Jones track, Tainted Love is the first book length inquiry into the subject of the twisted romantic ballad, giving a sense of both its history and contemporary currency. Sometimes extreme, this twist to the conventional romantic ballad spans across gender and generational boundaries to subvert our understanding of both the genres function
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Dispensing with simple narratives of re-enchantment
the artist and the designer Ana Baliza have devised a semi-random system of signatures
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narrative writing was re-formed
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this indispensable resource on the artist’s oeuvre contains 700 illustrations
Brar pays attention to the way each of these critically acclaimed musical projects experiments with aesthetic form through an experimentation of the social
His work has also been included in group exhibitions at London’s ICA