Seven Days in the Art World

Thornton, Sarah

ISBN 10: 039333712X / ISBN 13: 9780393337129

Edité par W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York and London, 2009

xix, 287 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Good+. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear, age toning. A good reading copy for the thrifty scholar. Another copy available. *** CONTENTS: The auction; The crit; The fair; The prize; The magazine; The studio visit; The biennale. "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." - Publisher. Size: 8vo. N° de réf. du vendeur 109413

Synopsis :

Sarah Thornton's vivid ethnography--an international hit, now available in twenty translations--reveals the inner workings of the sophisticated subcultures that make up the contemporary art world. In a series of day-in-the-life narratives set in New York, Los Angeles, London, Basel, Venice, and Tokyo, Seven Days in the Art World explores the dynamics of creativity, taste, status, money, and the search for meaning in life.

À propos de l?auteur: Sarah Thornton is a sociologist and author of four critically acclaimed books, including the international bestseller Seven Days in the Art World. A scholar-in-residence at University of California, Berkeley, for three years while writing Tits Up, she lives in San Francisco, California.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Seven Days in the Art World
Éditeur : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York and London
Date d'édition : 2009
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Good