Дата выхода: | ноябрь 2009 |
ISBN: | 9781847080844 |
Объём: | 320 страниц |
Масса: | 265 г |
Размеры(В x Ш x Т), см: | 21 x 14 |
Обложка: | мягкая |
Бумага: | офсетная |
ISBN оригинала: | 9781847080844 |
Год выхода оригинала: | 2009 |
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 beautifully paced 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.