{"product_id":"dead-peasant-9781771669986","title":"Dead Peasant","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDrawing on her decades of navigating the art world, Lisa Baldissera weaves writing conventions from the visual arts with the imaginative possibilities of magic realism and autofiction in this groundbreaking collection of short fiction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe stories in\u003ci\u003e Dead Peasant\u003c\/i\u003e reveal the fraught circumstances and neglected emotions of an underclass who toil below the glossy economies of the international high-art world, including artists and art workers. Here, characters from across centuries are haunted by war, floods, and their parental histories. An auction-house worker vomits blueberries on an art-collecting oligarch. An aspiring curator converses with Lindsay Lohan about an exhibition of horse paintings before tragedy strikes. An archivist studies planet Earth from space, reflecting on tax havens and the embattled ecology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough these startling, affective, incisive, and fun stories, Baldissera chronicles the unique challenges of the art world and the damage it inflicts on those struggling to get by. Like the eviscerative work of Rachel Cusk and the dark humour of Miranda July, she satirizes the neoliberal double-speak of the 'creative economy' and its punifiying forces, to ask, what is it, truly, that art can do now? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Book*hug Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781771669986\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.48lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.01h x 5.31w x 0.51d","brand":"Lisa Baldissera","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53678479671477,"sku":"9781771669986","price":17.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/9781771669986.jpg?v=1793721949","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/dead-peasant-9781771669986","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}