The Alpine Fantasy of Victor B: And Other Stories

Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, and Andy Warhol all wrote fiction but there has never previously been a compilation of the prose of British artists. The Alpine Fantasy of Victor B and Other Stories brings together seventeen of Britain s leading contemporary artists in one collection. Moving, humorous and sometimes deeply macabre, these stories deal with dementia, mortality, mass murder and madness. A young woman derails a Virgin train, killing twenty people, as an experiment in conquering death; a boy fakes an accident to get the attention of the girl of his dreams; an alpine hiker advocates murder as an environmental clean-up solution; and time goes backwards as we witness the unlynching of a paedophile by the local neighbourhood watch. Challenging and expanding notions of art and what artists do, The Alpine Fantasy of Victor B and Other Stories is a haunting exploration of the impulses that drive today s artists.

A thought-provoking insight into today's visual-arts scene? For those fascinated by the current wave of Y (and not so Y) BAs, this will provide an interesting, if wilfully elliptical insight into their inner worlds -- Vogue ?The Alpine Fantasy of Victor B has unnatural events and weird characters in abundance, sometimes amusing and often unsettling but always scarily intriguing? Big Issue

Jeremy Akerman is an artist and curator. He edited and co-produced Active Genital and runs short courses in curating at the University of the Arts, St Martins College. He is currently curating Wandering Star: Contemporary British and Korean Landscapes an exhibition of new artwork for a group show in Seoul in 2006.

Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, and Andy Warhol all wrote fiction but there has never previously been a compilation of the prose of British artists. The Alpine Fantasy of Victor B and Other Stories brings together seventeen of Britain s leading contemporary artists in one collection. Moving, humorous and sometimes deeply macabre, these stories deal with dementia, mortality, mass murder and madness. A young woman derails a Virgin train, killing twenty people, as an experiment in conquering death; a boy fakes an accident to get the attention of the girl of his dreams; an alpine hiker advocates murder as an environmental clean-up solution; and time goes backwards as we witness the unlynching of a paedophile by the local neighbourhood watch. Challenging and expanding notions of art and what artists do, The Alpine Fantasy of Victor B and Other Stories is a haunting exploration of the impulses that drive today s artists.

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