{"product_id":"love-in-a-time-of-allegory-9781917651509","title":"Love in a Time of Allegory","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this illustrated essay, celebrated artist Nicholas Muellner proposes that allegory and imagination, like love, keep open the possibility of connection in a fractured world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLove in a Time of Allegory\u003c\/i\u003e asks how we can still feel, desire, and imagine in an age of relentless realism. Moving between images and text, Nicholas Muellner's illustrated essay turns to allegory as a way of thinking through politics, love, and meaning when private life is inseparable from public crisis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHaunted by political and ecological anxiety and by the erosion of shared truths, Muellner argues that realism jeopardises our capacity to imagine the world as anything other than it already is, asking how fiction and metaphor might open other ways of seeing. The book unfolds as a meditation on desire and belief, on how intimacy persists within disillusionment, and how emotion becomes a form of resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on histories of art, literature, and philosophy, Muellner proposes that allegory, like love, keeps open the possibility of connection in a fractured world. Love and allegory resist the flattening of experience, insisting that imagination remains a radical, collaborative act capable of transforming even the most precarious realities into tenderness and hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9781917651509\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: MACK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eNicholas Muellner (b. 1969) is a writer and photographer based in Marseille, France. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eIn Most Tides an Island\u003c\/i\u003e (2018) and \u003ci\u003eLacuna Park\u003c\/i\u003e (2021), both published by SPBH Editions, and is regarded as a leading figure in the image-text field. He is Associate Professor of Art and the founding Director of the MFA Image Text program at Cornell University. His books have been widely exhibited and acclaimed for their experimental integration of photography and literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003e","brand":"Nicholas Muellner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48997124899033,"sku":"9781917651509","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0502\/9530\/8441\/files\/9781917651509.jpg?v=1784734459","url":"https:\/\/www.arielbooks.com.au\/products\/love-in-a-time-of-allegory-9781917651509","provider":"Ariel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}