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Seven Days in the Art World

Auteur(s): Sarah Thornton
Narrateur(s): Tavia Gilbert
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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.

©2008 Sarah Thornton (P)2014 Tantor Art Histoire et critique de l'art Divertissement

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"Thornton offers an elegant, evocative, sardonic view into some of the art world's most prestigious institutions." ( Publishers Weekly)
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Overall, enjoyed this book, and the way it highlighted different aspects of the art world. My ah ha moment came at the very end, when the author described herself as an ethnographer. I have heard this term before, but never really understood it. Google it, as I just did, and you’ll see it describes how she approached her research for this book to a tee! I love truly getting a ‘new to me’ word!

Art from an ethnographer’s perspective

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Intriguing look inside the serious art world / art business. Voice and reading very enjoyable.

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