{"id":5334,"title":"Sweet Sweat","dimensions":"14.9 x 20 cm, 236 p, language: English, translation from Hebrew, publisher: Berlin/Antwerpen :   Sternberg Press/Extra City - Center for Contemporary Art (originally published by Babel Publishers, Tel Aviv, 2001), ISBN: 978-1-933128-66-5","date_begin":"2009-01-01","material":"ink, paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":8,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2024/815","stream_count_app":50,"permalink":"sweet-sweat","description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Book","nl":"Boek","fr":"Livre"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/010/644/large/Artistnovel_038.jpg?1342079759","poster_credits":"(c)M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSweet Sweat\u003c/em\u003e, the only novel by Jewish-Belgian Surrealist and pornographer Justine Frank, is unusual, to say the least\u0026mdash;a blend of feminism, pornography, Judaism, and art, written in French in 1931. Its heroine is a Jewish girl named Rachel, born in the South of France, who has an outstanding talent for debauchery and crime. She takes up with the sybaritic Count Urdukas and sets out with him on an odyssey of pleasure and corruption marked by bizarre events in which horror and humor mingle. This comprehensive new edition of Frank\u0026rsquo;s novel includes an extensive biography by Israeli American writer and artist Roee Rosen and a timeline tracing key moments in Frank\u0026rsquo;s life, providing a definitive analysis of this once-scandalous novel and its historical and cultural contexts. The third text in the book is a theoretical essay pursuing many of the aspects at play in her book and in her art.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book can, of course, be read separately, but it is also a part of a project encompassing a variety of media (paintings, photographs, a video etc.). \u003cem\u003eSweet Sweat\u003c/em\u003e is an attempt to defy not only the divides between literature and art, but between the imagined and the real as well. In 2009, Extra City held an exhibition that contextualized a large selection of Frank\u0026#39;s paintings by including the cinematic portrait Two Women and a Man (2005), directed by the artist and writer Roee Rosen.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://roeerosen.com/tagged/Justine-Frank\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.extracity.org/en/projects/view/3\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website2\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiteraire synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSweet Sweat\u003c/em\u003e, de enige roman van de Joods-Belgische surrealist en pornograaf Justine Frank, is op zijn minst ongewoon: een mengeling van feminisme, pornografie, Jodendom en kunst, geschreven in Frans in 1931. De heldin is een Joods meisje, Rachel, geboren in Zuid-Frankrijk en met een uitzonderlijk talent voor uitspattingen en misdaad. Ze slaat de handen in elkaar met de wellustige graaf Urdukas en onderneemt samen met hem een odyssee van plezier en corruptie, vol bizarre gebeurtenissen waarin horror en humor zich met elkaar vermengen. Deze nieuwe editie van Franks roman bevat een uitgebreide biografie door de Isra\u0026euml;lisch-Amerikaanse schrijver en kunstenaar Roee Rosen en een tijdslijn met de belangrijkste momenten in het leven van Frank, een definitieve analyse van deze voormalige schandaalroman en haar historische en culturele context. De derde tekst in het boek is een theoretisch essay over verschillende aspecten van haar boek en haar kunst.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVerhouding van de roman tot de praktijk van de kunstenaar\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHet boek kan uiteraard afzonderlijk gelezen worden, maar maakt ook deel uit van een project dat verschillende disciplines hanteert (schilderijen, foto\u0026rsquo;s, een video enzovoort). \u003cem\u003eSweet Sweat\u003c/em\u003e is een poging om niet alleen de schotten tussen literatuur en kunst uit te dagen, maar ook die tussen de verbeelding en de werkelijkheid. In 2009 verleende Extra City met een tentoonstelling context aan een grote selectie van schilderijen van Frank, zoals het filmische portret *Two Women and a Man* (2005), geregisseerd door de kunstenaar en auteur Roee Rosen.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://roeerosen.com/tagged/Justine-Frank\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.extracity.org/en/projects/view/3\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website2\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":1897,"name":"Justine Frank","category":{"en":"Author","nl":"Auteur","fr":"Auteur"}},{"id":1467,"name":"Roee Rosen","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}