This is Madame Bovary as you’ve never seen it, deconstructed and reassembled through the enigmatic photos and collages of cross-disciplinary créateur Marc Camille Chaimowicz. Published by Four Corners Books as part of their ongoing artist series Familiars, Chaimowicz accentuates the sensual atmosphere of Gustave Flaubert’s epic narrative, using fragments of magazines, vintage nudes and collected ephemera to embody its doomed protagonist’s relationship to fashion and consumption—and the story’s continued relevance today. Paris-born Chaimowicz achieved international acclaim in the 1970s with his merging of performance and installation in psychedelic works that challenged the prevailing minimalist mode of the time. Equally influenced by art history and glam rock, he has exhibited at such venues as the Serpentine Gallery in London, the Vienna Secession and Artist’s Space, New York. His response to Flaubert references both his relationship to French polymaths Jean Genet and Jean Cocteau, and the modern-day tales of pop culture magazines. As Four Corners publisher Richard Embray puts it, “There’s something about that glossy world that echoes the sumptuousness but also the steeliness of the world of Madame Bovary.”