{"product_id":"fish-p","title":"Fish Out of Water","description":"\u003cp style=\"line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eby Claire-Louise Bennett\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eSelf-Portrait with Wings\u003c\/i\u003e by Chloe Aridjis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eJoan Publishing\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003ePaperback, 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e45 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSometimes it’s very uplifting to feel one’s fleshy boundaries dissolve. To not know where one ends and the world begins. To feel someone's breast is your breast too. Total immersion can be very transporting indeed.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI think \u003ci\u003eFish Out of Water\u003c\/i\u003e is about recognition, that extraordinary moment of encountering a work of art that makes you reel because it seems to beckon you, to know what you once did but have had to forget, to lead you back to yourself but as a stranger. It reminds us that we might well arrive in this world too soon, or the wrong way round, and what’s meant to nourish us might choke us, but we were never long for all that, anyway. There’s still chance to recover ourselves and the world as new and totally strange. - Jennifer Hodgson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLooking at art is not a straightforward experience; neither is summing up an artist’s life. Claire-Louise Bennett’s crackling, vivid prose is full of images, associations, feelings and analysis – an extraordinary evocation of a great artist by a great writer. - Jennifer Higgie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBennett and Aridjis do as great art writing does—they free Tanning’s art from its origins and from the parameters of the frame, refuse it as a fixed entity, and then imbricate its surface like the tide lapping at the shore, leaving residues, washing things away, and depositing new materials. - Rose Higham Stainton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFish Out of Water \u003c\/i\u003ewas originally published in 2020 by Juxta Press, Milan, as part of their Words for Portraits series. This new edition also contains\u003ci\u003e Self-Portrait with Wings, \u003c\/i\u003ea response to the text by Chloe Aridjis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54940649226574,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/0680\/6606\/files\/fishoutofwater_4892b7f6-35b0-44e3-97f8-39a8543cea22.png?v=1759857295","url":"https:\/\/eastbristolbooks.pro\/products\/fish-p","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}