Seven Days in the Art WorldThe 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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User Review - stillatim - LibraryThingA fun, deceptively sophisticated jog through one very small aspect of "the art world." And that aspect is, overwhelmingly, the economic. This is a book about how rich people have nothing to do with ... Read full review
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User Review - Dan Cassidy - GoodreadsSeven Days with the one percent. The world that she explores is far beyond the reach of most of her readers. The art world is vast, not just this thin sliver of billionaires and hedge fund managers ... Read full review
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| Title | Seven Days in the Art World |
| Author | Sarah Thornton |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Granta, 2008 |
| ISBN | 1847080375, 9781847080370 |
| Length | 274 pages |
| Subjects | › › Art / Design / General Art / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945) |
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