{"product_id":"fairy-tales-9781925922158","title":"Fairy Tales","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFairy Tales\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates art and film that explores this evolving narrative form and the fascination it has commanded for centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on popular themes of magic, enchantment, and transformation, the paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations, film clips, props, and costumes draw not only on well-known narratives—such as 'Little Red Riding Hood', 'Sleeping Beauty', 'Snow White', and 'Hansel and Gretel'—but also lesser-known stories to examine anxieties around power imbalances, injustice, and fighting adversity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStunning works by international artists and filmmakers including Yayoi Kusama, Kiki Smith, Tracey Moffatt, Ron Mueck, Jim Henson, and Maurice Sendak, among many others, demonstrate the ways fairy tale motifs and metaphors continue to upend established ideas and confront real-world challenges. These works illustrate, in publication contributor Jack Zipes's words, how \"fairy tales have a meaningful social function in revealing the gaps between truth and falsehood in our society\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis sumptuous hardback book, produced to accompany QAGOMA's blockbuster summer exhibition of the same name, interprets fairy tale tropes within contemporary artistic and sociopolitical discourses. It includes scholarly contributions from exhibition curator Amanda Slack-Smith, Curatorial Manager of the Australian Cinémathèque, as well as eminent fairy tale experts Pauline Greenhill, Marina Warner, and Jack Zipes. Australian novelist and screenwriter Holly Ringland also contributes a new short story in response to the exhibition's themes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFairy Tales\u003c\/i\u003e features full-colour illustrations of all artworks in the exhibition, as well as a complete \u003ci\u003eFairy Tales\u003c\/i\u003e film programme listing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47072218120428,"sku":"9781925922158","price":85.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/42820339b7b61b0e75f7699d55752ddc.jpg?v=1765104083","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/fairy-tales-9781925922158","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}