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Neem Tree Press has snapped up The Vanitas & Other Tales of Art and Obsession, a collection of eight short stories from Jake Kendall.
Dr Archna Sharma, c.e.o. and publisher, acquired world rights in all-languages directly from the author. The collection will be published in paperback and e-book in February 2024.
Kendall’s prose "weaves art styles such as Cubism, Surrealism and the Baroque" while each story is accompanied with a black and white illustration by Simona Slavova and Emily TahaBurt.
Kendall commented: “This collection was designed to refract some of the concerns and anxieties facing us today through the timeless imagery of Caravaggio, Bosch, Gericault, Van Gogh and others. I am excited to share the artistic obsessions of characters, real and imagined, with the world, along with the agonies and ecstasies entailed by the act of creation.”
Sharma added: "We are incredibly excited to be publishing Jake Kendall’s collection. This is a tour de force that explores the obsession of art and artists through unconventional and visceral writing. Jake takes the reader deep into the psyche of infatuation, both from the perspective of an art aficionado and the practitioner, and he does this while taking the reader on a tour of art history.”