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LEADER: 02095cam a22003374a 4500
001 2008035056
003 DLC
005 20140710075815.0
008 080806s2008 nyua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008035056
020 $a039306722X (hardcover)
020 $a9780393067224 (hardcover)
035 $a(OCoLC)227016651
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050 00 $aN8600$b.T485 2008
082 00 $a709.05$222
100 1 $aThornton, Sarah$q(Sarah L.)
245 10 $aSeven days in the art world /$cSarah Thornton.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bW.W. Norton,$cc2008.
300 $axix, 274 p. :$bill. ;$c22 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 263-265) and index.
505 00 $tThe auction --$tThe crit --$tThe fair --$tThe prize --$tThe magazine --$tThe studio visit --$tThe biennale.
520 $aThe 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 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.
650 0 $aArt$xMarketing.
650 0 $aArt$vExhibitions.
650 0 $aArt$xCompetitions.
650 0 $aArt auctions.
650 0 $aArt criticism.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0825/2008035056.html