Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Arts & Decoration
Author: Art World and Arts & Decoration
Author: The Art World and Arts & Decoration
Author: Seven Days in the Art World
Author: Sarah ThorntonPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393071057
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book 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.
A World History of Art
Author: Gina PischelPublisher:
ISBN: 9780882252582
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 751
Book Description
Arts & Crafts
Author: Michael RobinsonPublisher: Flame Tree Illustrated
ISBN: 9781786647658
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Arts & Crafts is a celebration of the design movement that started in Britain and spread around the world at the end of the nineteenth century. Depicting both well-known and unusual art and artifacts from this most fascinating of eras, this book provides a wealth of information about the lives and times of the designers, architects and artists who created them.
33 Artists in 3 Acts
Author: Sarah ThorntonPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393245810
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
This compelling narrative goes behind the scenes with the world’s most important living artists to humanize and demystify contemporary art. The best-selling author of Seven Days in the Art World now tells the story of the artists themselves—how they move through the world, command credibility, and create iconic works. 33 Artists in 3 Acts offers unprecedented access to a dazzling range of artists, from international superstars to unheralded art teachers. Sarah Thornton's beautifully paced, fly-on-the-wall narratives include visits with Ai Weiwei before and after his imprisonment and Jeff Koons as he woos new customers in London, Frankfurt, and Abu Dhabi. Thornton meets Yayoi Kusama in her studio around the corner from the Tokyo asylum that she calls home. She snoops in Cindy Sherman’s closet, hears about Andrea Fraser’s psychotherapist, and spends quality time with Laurie Simmons, Carroll Dunham, and their daughters Lena and Grace. Through these intimate scenes, 33 Artists in 3 Acts explores what it means to be a real artist in the real world. Divided into three cinematic "acts"—politics, kinship, and craft—it investigates artists' psyches, personas, politics, and social networks. Witnessing their crises and triumphs, Thornton turns a wry, analytical eye on their different answers to the question "What is an artist?" 33 Artists in 3 Acts reveals the habits and attributes of successful artists, offering insight into the way these driven and inventive people play their game. In a time when more and more artists oversee the production of their work, rather than make it themselves, Thornton shows how an artist’s radical vision and personal confidence can create audiences for their work, and examines the elevated role that artists occupy as essential figures in our culture.
Art World and Arts & Decoration
Author: Artistic Circles
Author: Charlotte GerePublisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
ISBN:
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Rupert Maas of the Maas Gallery in London, which was founded fifty years ago by his father Jeremy, a pioneer dealer in Victorian painting and sculpture, also acts as an expert for the ̀Antiques Roadshow', on Victorian and twentieth-century art. --Book Jacket.
Artists' Film (World of Art)
Author: David CurtisPublisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500776784
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
Artists’ Film offers a lucid, accessible account of artists’ unique contribution to the art of the moving image in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. International in scope and accessibly written by a renowned authority on the subject, Artists’ Film is an introductory guide to the exciting and expanding field of artists’ film and an alternative history of the moving image, chronicling artists’ ever-evolving fascination with filmmaking from the early twentieth century to now. From early pioneers to key artists of today, writer and curator David Curtis offers a vivid account of the many creators who have been inspired by the cinematic medium and who have felt compelled to interpret and respond to it in their own way. In doing so, Curtis discusses these artists’ widely differing achievements, aspirations, theories, and approaches. Featuring over four hundred international moving-image makers and drawing on examples from across the arts, including experimental film, video, installation, and multimedia, this generously illustrated account offers an incomparable introduction to this continually evolving art form. A perfect read for anyone with an interest in the intersection of contemporary art and film.