{"product_id":"love-in-a-time-of-allegory","title":"Love in a Time of Allegory","description":"Following the acclaim of In Most Tides an Island (2018) and Lacuna Park (2021),\nLove in the Time of Allegory is the latest book by Nicholas Muellner, a leading\nfigure in the image-text f ield and founding director of the MFA Image Text\nprogram at Cornell University Created in an era of authoritarian resurgence,\necological precarity, and displacement, the book uses allegory to explore how\ndesire and intimacy persist within lives shaped by public crisis, resonating\ndeeply with our fractured present This richly illustrated essay combines\ncritical thinking with photography, bringing together fragments – dream-like\nstories, portraits, reflective prose – to refuse a purity of genre Love in a\nTime of Allegory asks how we can still feel, desire, and imagine in an age of\nrelentless realism. Moving between images and text, Nicholas Muellner’s\nillustrated essay turns to allegory as a way of thinking through politics, love,\nand meaning when private life is inseparable from public crisis. Haunted by\npolitical and ecological anxiety and by the erosion of shared truths, Muellner\nargues that realism jeopardises our capacity to imagine the world as anything\nother than it already is, asking how fiction and metaphor might open other ways\nof seeing. The book unfolds as a meditation on desire and belief, on how\nintimacy persists within disillusionment, and how emotion becomes a form of\nresistance. Drawing on histories of art, literature, and philosophy, Muellner\nproposes that allegory, like love, keeps open the possibility of connection in a\nfractured world. Love and allegory resist the flattening of experience,\ninsisting that imagination remains a radical, collaborative act capable of\ntransforming even the most precarious realities into tenderness and hope.","brand":"ART AND PAPER","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52592893788469,"sku":"9781917651509","price":15.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0870\/9023\/3653\/files\/2da27a8c-f1b1-4b8a-a78a-8e59debcb08d.jpg?v=1776423120","url":"https:\/\/librairiesanstitre.com\/en\/products\/love-in-a-time-of-allegory","provider":"librairie sans titre","version":"1.0","type":"link"}