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  Seven Days in the Art World (Hardback) By (author) Sarah Thornton

  

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  Short Description for Seven Days in the Art WorldIn a series of beautifully paced narratives, Thornton gives a fly-on-the-wall account of the smart and strange subcultures that make, trade, curate, collect, and hype contemporary art.
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  • Publisher: WW Norton & Co
  • Published: 02 December 2008
  • Format: Hardback 274 pages
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  • Categories: Art Finance | Art History | Art History: c 1900 - | Art History: From c 1960 | Cultural Studies
  • ISBN 13: 9780393067224 ISBN 10: 039306722X
  • Sales rank: 163,726

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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.