Seven Days in the Art World の感想
参照データ
タイトル | Seven Days in the Art World |
発売日 | 2008-11-17 |
製作者 | Sarah Thornton |
販売元 | W. W. Norton & Company |
JANコード | 登録されていません |
カテゴリ | 洋書 » Subjects » Arts & Photography » Business of Art |
Seven Days in the Art World とは
A fly-on-the-wall account of the smart and strange subcultures that make, trade, curate, collect, and hype contemporary art.
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.
購入者の感想
Interesting anthropological view that keeps the reader engaged.