Under The Skin by Michel Faber

Under The Skin by Michel Faber

Thanks to the efforts of various international curators and artists, Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) is now widely regarded as a pioneer of abstract art.

This volume reproduces the last abstract images series made by af Klint in the 1920s, which have never before been published in their entirety.

These images are complemented by essays based on lectures delivered during the exhibition>Hilma af Klint: Painting the Unseen, at London's Serpentine Galleries in 2016. Briony Fer, David Lomas, Branden Joseph, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Daniel Birnbaum shed new light on af Klint and her importance for artists today, also addressing the need for a broader conception of art history that her work proposes.

A wonderful book - painful, lyrical, frightening, brilliant. . I couldn't put it down -- Kate Atkinson
One of the best-orchestrated reveals in modern British fiction . . . Michel Faber is a masterly writer -- David Mitchell
Profound and disturbing . . . Faber writes superbly * * Sunday Times * *
This is a man who could give Conrad a run at writing the perfect sentence * * Guardian * *
Teases and prods the reader up a plethora of literary blind alleys before hauling them screaming towards its final, thrilling destination * * Daily Telegraph * *
Strange, adept, original . . . Would that more first novels were as adventurous or as funky and daring in their conception * * Independent on Sunday * *
A brilliantly compressed drama of threat and ambiguity . . . Recalling writers such as Jim Crace and Russell Hoban, Under the Skin, like Faber's short stories, is an extremely assured and imaginative work * * Observer * *
Astonishingly, this is Michel Faber's first novel. It is audacious, fascinating, repellent and quite unlike anything I have ever read * * Mail on Sunday * *
Under the Skin is a shocking and fantastical take on modern humanity * * The Week * *
The fantastic is so nicely played against the day-to-day that one feels the strangeness of both . . . A remarkable novel * * New York Times * *

Michel Faber has written nine other books. In addition to the Whitbread-shortlisted Under the Skin, he is the author of the highly acclaimed The Crimson Petal and the White, The Book of Strange New Things, which was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award and won the Saltire Book of the Year Award 2015, and most recently Undying, his first poetry collection. Born in Holland, brought up in Australia, he now lives in the UK.

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ISBN 13	9781786890528
ISBN 10	1786890526
Title	Under The Skin
Author	Michel Faber
Series	Canons
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Canongate Books
Year published	2017-07-06
Number of pages	304
Prizes	Short-listed for Whitbread First Novel Award 2000 (UK)
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