Seven days in the art world
The auction -- The crit -- The fair -- The prize -- The magazine -- The studio visit -- The biennale.
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| Format: | UnknownFormat |
| Sprache: | eng |
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New York, NY u.a.
Norton
2008
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| Ausgabe: | 1. ed. |
| Schlagworte: |
Art
> Marketing
> Competitions
> Art auctions
> Art criticism
> Exhibitions
> Kunstmarkt
> Kunstausstellung
> Kunstmesse
> Kunstauktion
> Kunst
> Kaufpreis
> Kritik
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | The auction -- The crit -- The fair -- The prize -- The magazine -- The studio visit -- The biennale. Introduction -- The auction -- The crit -- The fair -- The prize -- The magazine -- The studio visit -- The biennale -- Author's note -- Acknowledgments -- Selected bibliography -- Illustration credits -- Index 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 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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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XIX, 274 S Ill 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780393067224 978-0-393-06722-4 |