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Even before his birth, Johnny Baker's life is in danger. His mother breaks the law when she has her fertilized egg endowed with genes that will give her son the potential to become a visual artist. Born in 2038, John Firth Baker is the first genetically engineered artist. At the age of nineteen, at the threshold of his career, he is murdered. Now, ten years after his death, Baker has become famous. An art curator has organized a show of his work, and his biography-culled from journals, e-mails, and interviews with those who knew him best-is published. The Song of the Earth is this "biography." It presents a powerful and haunting portrait of an artist as a young man in the twenty-first century. Baker is born into a world transformed by technology: genetic profiles, space travel, and controlled housing communities are commonplace. Global warming has altered the environment. A planetary gender war is raging, familial structures are shattered, and new religions contend with the old. Yet human needs remain the same: the search for love, the desire for approval, the longing for fame, and the quest for knowledge. The Song of the Earth is a hypnotic novel about our desire to control our destinies, our yearning for immortality, and the very human impulse to create art. With prose, poetry, and images, Nissenson tells an original tale that brilliantly captures the experience of another time and place.… (más)
Why is Hugh Nissenson not better known? He is not a science fiction writer, and yet, The Song of the Earth is a novel filled with future shock. It is at once an ode to a dying earth and a warning regarding the sorrows of technology as it mistakenly informs art. The book, written as the fake biography of a famous pansexual painter (birthed specifically for his artistic ability), is also a fragmented reflection, if that is the word, on the consequences of the war between the sexes: where men and women leading separate lives are destined to become co-conspirators in a miserable society. In a dystopia, the family is more vulnerable than religion. One of the better sci-fi novels of the past decade. ( )
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For Marilyn, Kate, Kore, and Daria Keynan
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
This biography of John Firth Baker, illustrated with his work, is published in collaboration with The Virtual Museum of Modern American Modern Art, which organized and mounted the current Baker retrospective that commemorates the tenth anniversary of his death.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Even before his birth, Johnny Baker's life is in danger. His mother breaks the law when she has her fertilized egg endowed with genes that will give her son the potential to become a visual artist. Born in 2038, John Firth Baker is the first genetically engineered artist. At the age of nineteen, at the threshold of his career, he is murdered. Now, ten years after his death, Baker has become famous. An art curator has organized a show of his work, and his biography-culled from journals, e-mails, and interviews with those who knew him best-is published. The Song of the Earth is this "biography." It presents a powerful and haunting portrait of an artist as a young man in the twenty-first century. Baker is born into a world transformed by technology: genetic profiles, space travel, and controlled housing communities are commonplace. Global warming has altered the environment. A planetary gender war is raging, familial structures are shattered, and new religions contend with the old. Yet human needs remain the same: the search for love, the desire for approval, the longing for fame, and the quest for knowledge. The Song of the Earth is a hypnotic novel about our desire to control our destinies, our yearning for immortality, and the very human impulse to create art. With prose, poetry, and images, Nissenson tells an original tale that brilliantly captures the experience of another time and place.
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