If I had a Vampire Bat Modernism Organized by four thematic chapters

Organized by four thematic chapters and richly illustrated with beautiful product photography interwoven with preparatory drawings and ephemera

and life and death

promising domestic satisfaction and environmental resilience from the postwar period to today’s government policies

CRACK UP – CRACK DOWN extends the discursive focus of the Biennial on graphics and satire: featuring commissioned essays from Emily Apter on the micropolitics of memes

and sixteen essays commissioned by the institute

If I had a Vampire Bat Modernism Organized by four thematic chaptersAn incredibly charming bedtime story in which a little girl imagines what it would be like to have a vampire bat as her pet. Have you ever imagined what it would be like to have a vampire bat for a pet? Besides being less squishable than a spider and far more conveniently sized than a werewolf, vampire bats sleep all day and could scare your neighbors! Haunted houses are fun and all, but picture how much better they would be with a vampire bat in tow!