| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xix, 274 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-265) and index. |
| Contents |
The auction -- The crit -- The fair -- The prize -- The magazine -- The studio visit -- The biennale. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subject |
Art -- Marketing.
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Art -- Marketing. |
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Art -- Exhibitions.
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Art -- Exhibitions. |
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Art -- Competitions.
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Art -- Competitions. |
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Art criticism.
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Art criticism. |
| Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs.
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Exhibition catalogs.
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| ISBN |
039306722X hardcover |
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9780393067224 hardcover |
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