Seven days in the art world
Book |
1st ed. |
W.W. Norton,
New York :
c2008.
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About
The art market has been booming. Museum attendance is surging. More people than ever call themselves artists. Contemporary art has become a mass entertainment, a luxury good, a job description, and, for some, a kind of alternative religion. In a series of narratives, Sarah Thornton investigates the drama of a Christie's auction, the workings in Takashi Murakami's studios, the elite at the Basel Art Fair, the eccentricities of Artforum magazine, the competition behind an important art prize, life in a notorious art-school seminar, and the wonderland of the Venice Biennale. She reveals the new dynamics of creativity, taste, status, money, and the search for meaning in life. A judicious and juicy account of the institutions that have the power to shape art history, based on hundreds of interviews with high-profile players, Thornton's entertaining ethnography will change the way you look at contemporary culture.
Details
- ISBN: 9780393067224 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 039306722X (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xix, 274 p. : ill.print
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, c2008.
- Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-265) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note: The auction -- The crit -- The fair -- The prize -- The magazine -- The studio visit -- The biennale.