{"product_id":"seven-days-in-the-art-world","title":"Seven Days in the Art World","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eSeven Days in the Art World\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eSarah Thornton\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780393067224\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eW. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2008\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e304\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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 \u003cem\u003eArtforum\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Seven Days in the Art World | Sarah Thornton | Hardcover | 9780393067224 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks G 1789080","offer_id":67857763106968,"sku":"1789080","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/51ihm5cyj-L.jpg?v=1793496369","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/seven-days-in-the-art-world","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}