| Author/Contributor(s): | Ducornet, Rikki |
| Publisher: | City Lights Books |
| Date: | 01/01/1999 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
With the great Renaissance voyages to the New World came the popularity of Wunderkammern, or cabinets of wonders, in which newly discovered monsters and marvels could be displayed. Like such a cabinet, this collection of essays surveys the monstrous and the marvelous--as transmuted in the alembic of Rikki Ducornet's open-hearted vision--in literature, art and film. For her, excess anomaly, and heterodoxy entice the imagining mind to embrace otherness, enlarge the world and regenerate Eden.