SEVEN DAYS IN THE ART WORLD BY SARAH THORNTON

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Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton Product Details Hardcover: 256 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co. Publication Date: 2008-11-03 ISBN: 039306722X List Price: $24.95        Price: $16.47 Editorial Reviews Product Description 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. Customers who bought this book also bought The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art Lives of the Artists Outliers: The Story of Success Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity A Short Life of Trouble: Forty Years in the New York Art World

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