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The Dancing Plague by Gareth Brookes

Description: The Dancing Plague tells a true story, from 1518, when hundreds of inhabitants of Strasbourg were suddenly seized by the strange and unstoppable compulsion to dance, from the imagined perspective of Mary, one of its witnesses. Prone to mystic visions as a child, betrayed in the convent to which she flees, then abused by her loutish husband, Mary endures her life as an oppressed and ultimately scapegoated woman with courage, strength, and inspiring beauty. As difficult to interpret now (as a psychological reaction to social injustice?) as it was then (as a collective demonic possession?), the story of the "Dancing Plague" finds suitably extraordinary expression in the utterly unique mixed-media style Gareth Brookes has devised to tell it. The pioneering blend of his trademark "pyrographic" technique with sumptuously colourful (and literal) embroidery perfectly reflects, in a beautiful work of art, the enduring fragility of our human condition - from "choreomania" to coronavirus.

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EAN: 9781910593981

UPC: 9781910593981

ISBN: 9781910593981

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Item Length: 23.9 cm

Book Title: The Dancing Plague

Item Height: 240mm

Item Width: 172mm

Author: Not Available

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Publisher: Selfmadehero

Publication Year: 2021

Genre: Comics

Item Weight: 600 g

Number of Pages: 192 Pages

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