Subterranean Gallery Author:Richard Paul Russo Art as shock value, art as hyperbolic ridicule, art as dramatic reflection of cultural neurosis ? it all can have a strong impact on society. Alienated artists run rampant in a dark, bleak, depressing view of the near future. Increasingly meaningless lives in a violent, corrupt, and poverty-stricken world. Possibly a record for the most cigarett... more »es smoked per chapter since the surgeon general's warning.
Enough like the modern world to make you wonder if this is really science fiction; enough different to make a strong, almost shockingly pessimistic political statement.