The Book, The Film, The T-Shirt and the Popular Culture

Ashley examines Matt Beaumont's modern novel, The Book, The Film, the T-Shirt, which takes the readers into the colorful world of the pseudo-arts. Those in this era of Damien Hirst and Yoko Ono, whose latest work of art in a serious exhibition was a little note pinned on a wall, are hardly to be distinguished from so-called serious art. In the pseudo-art area Beaumont has what the experimenters with rats call "absolute maze brightness." Beaumont exhibits the ability to get ahead past all the rats in the comic novel game, laughing all the way. He misses not one crass detail, not one single opportunity for the now-favorite irony.