
Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton
Contemporary art has become a mass entertainment, a luxury good, a job description and, for some, a kind of alternative religion. Sarah Thornton's shrewd and entertaining fly-on-the-wall narrative takes us behind the scenes of the art world, from art school to auction house, showing us how it works, and giving us a vivid sense of being there.
"Britain's hippest academic' Daily Telegraph 'Seven Days in the Art World is a great page-turner. . I worry that the book demystifies things so much that the next generation of artists will be over-informed' Grayson Perry, artist 'It's like having your own spy in the art world. Thornton parachutes the reader into the fascinating nitty gritty of how it all works' Alan Yentob, Creative Director, BBC 'Thorntona's eye for detail is uncanny . . . [She] refuses the lure of being an authority: her material is quicksilver, and she's wise enough to know it' Artnet.com a A smart, engagingly written insidera's look at the machinations and manipulations of todaya's art world. And what machinations they are, from the behind-the-scenes drama of a Christiea's auction to the empire building of such artist-celebrities as Takashi Murakami, with his multiple studios, to that ultimate art group-grope, the Venice Biennale, all limned here in fascinating detail. A great reada' Annalyn Swan, co-author of De Kooning: An American Master, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Sarah Thornton contributes regularly to Artforum and ArtReview and is the author of Club Cultures and co-author of The Subcultures Reader. She lives in London. She made her first TV appearance recently in Alan Yentob's programme on the Frieze arts fair, and several others are in the pipeline.
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ISBN 13 | 9781847080370 |
ISBN 10 | 1847080375 |
Title | Seven Days in the Art World |
Author | Sarah Thornton |
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Binding Type | Hardback |
Publisher | Granta Books |
Year published | 2008-10-01 |
Number of pages | 304 |
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