Seven Days in the Art World |
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| Title: | Seven Days in the Art World |
| Author: | Sarah Thornton |
| Publisher: | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Type: | Book / Paperback |
| Publication Date: | 02 November, 2009 |
| ISBN / ISBN-13: | 039333712X / 9780393337129 |
| List Price: | $15.95 |
| You Save: | $5.10 |
| Amazon Price: | $10.85 |
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Named one of the best art books of 2008 by The New York Times and The Sunday Times [London]: βAn indelible portrait of a peculiar society.ββVogue 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 beautifully paced 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. 8 illustrations
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