Theodora Allen: Saturnine Gary Hume Simonon’s depiction of the ordinary

Simonon’s depiction of the ordinary and banal is expressive of working class struggles and consequent emerging sub-cultures and counter-cultures during post-war austerity

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Theodora Allen: Saturnine Gary Hume Simonon’s depiction of the ordinaryKunsthal Aarhus Motto, 2021, Hardcover, 215 pages, 24 17 cm Edited by Stephanie Cristello. Straddling criticism and prose, this first monograph of Los Angeles based contemporary artist Theodora Allen interweaves the artists emblematic use of symbols with the cultural history of Saturn and Melancholy from ancient myth to the present. Alternating between fictional texts and research based essays, Theodora Allen: Saturnine puts forward different spheres