{"id":14308,"title":"Rich and Poor","dimensions":"13 x 20 cm, 184 p., language : English, publisher : BookThug, ISBN : 9781771662383","date_begin":"2016-01-01","material":"ink, paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"collection MHKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2028/350","stream_count_app":6,"permalink":"rich-and-poor","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/000/032/639/large/rich_and_poor_front_cover_300_dpi.jpg?1469446138","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRich and Poor\u003c/em\u003e is the novel of a man who washes dishes for a living and decides to kill a billionaire as a political act. It is literature as political theory and theory as pure literary pleasure \u0026ndash; a spiralling, fast-paced parable of joyous, overly self-aware, mischievous class warfare. As his plan proceeds, and becomes more feasible, we cut back and forth between his and the billionaire\u0026rsquo;s perspectives, gradually revealing how easily the poisons of ambition, wealth and revolutionary violence can become entangled. A fable of not knowing how to change the world and perhaps learning how to do so in the process.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThere is no direct connection between \u003cem\u003eRich and Poor\u003c/em\u003e and Jacob Wren\u0026#39;s other art practices. However, in every other way it is utterly and totally connected.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://bookthug.ca/shop/books/rich-and-poor-by-jacob-wren\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":""},{"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":2101,"name":"Jacob  Wren","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}