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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.

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Book category Books in English The arts History of art / art & design styles History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -

• Full title: Seven Days in the Art World
• Author: Sarah Thornton
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 274
• EAN: 9780393067224
• ID: 04067342
• Publisher: W W NORTON & CO
• Weight: 474 g
• Dimensions: 218 × 152 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. December 2008

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