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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.
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Seven days in the art world, Sarah Thornton
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- Année de publication
- 2008
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- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Sarah Thornton
- Éditeur
- W.W. Norton & Company
- Publié
- 2008
- Format
- rigide
- Pages
- 274
- ISBN10
- 039306722x
- ISBN13
- 9780393067224
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Art / Culture, Thème historique, Histoire, Histoires vraies, Commerce, Affaires & Gestion, Beaux-arts, Peinture & Sculpture, Art, Presse d'opinion & Essais, Marketing & Ventes, Histoire et théorie de l’art, Histoire de l'art, Musées, Art moderne
- Évaluation
- 3,65 sur 5
- Description
- 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.