{"product_id":"gustave-flaubert-un-coeur-simple","title":"Gustave Flaubert. Un cœur simple","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eSherrie Levine has long explored radical forms of appropriation. While her investigations into representation and authenticity have typically involved recontextualising the work of renowned visual artists, including Walker Evans, Constantin Brâncuși, Vincent van Gogh, and Edgar Degas, here she turns to Gustave Flaubert’s nineteenth-century short story “Un cœur simple”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe story follows Félicité, a devoted and deeply religious servant whose shifting affections culminate in her mistaking a stuffed parrot for the Holy Ghost. By republishing and re-typesetting an early edition of the story, Levine questions conventional notions of authorship and originality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eProduced in 1991 as a limited edition of fifty copies, this literal and literary act of appropriation predates Richard Prince’s “The Catcher in the Rye” by two decades.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54018623635795,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/Levine.png?v=1781683606","url":"https:\/\/metabooks.art\/products\/gustave-flaubert-un-coeur-simple","provider":"Metabooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}