{"title":"Marcus Stewart","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarcus Stewart\u003c\/strong\u003e explores the rich interplay between creativity and society, offering readers insightful reflections on contemporary arts and cultural movements. His work often delves into the nuanced relationship between imagination and reality, inviting deep engagement with themes of identity and expression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough evocative storytelling and thoughtful analysis, titles like \u003cem\u003eShadows and Clouds\u003c\/em\u003e reveal the hidden layers of artistic experience. Fans of cultural studies and those seeking a profound understanding of the arts will find Stewart’s writing both compelling and illuminating.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"shadows-and-clouds-by-marcus-stewart-9781632431264","title":"Shadows and Clouds","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStories that question our experience of time, truth, and memory.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough the stories in \u003ci\u003eShadows and Clouds\u003c\/i\u003e, Marcus Stewart invites us to consider how things are not always as they appear or as we remember them, instead locating reality in the imagination and the dream world. While animals understand the world without words, humans create our experiences as stories, translating past and future into tales told in the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStewart's stories take the notion of storytelling and expand to a consideration of how truth, misremembering, logic, lying, and uncertainty play together to affect our experience of reality. In an alternate reading of time, Stewart poses the suggestion that you may already have a future memory of reading this book, and reading the stories backward may bring us back to the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471537193196,"sku":"9781632431264","price":31.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781632431264-shadows-and-clouds.jpg?v=1775246218"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/marcus-stewart.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}