Seven Days in the Art World

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 Murakam...

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.

【作者介绍】

萨拉·桑顿，作家，文化社会学家。出生于加拿大，目前定居伦敦，曾为《经济学人》当代艺术的首席撰稿记者。于加拿大蒙特利尔的康考迪亚大学（Concordia University）取得艺术史专业的硕士学位，于格拉斯哥的思克莱德大学（University of Strathclyde）取得社会学博士学位。萨塞克斯大学（University of Sussex）的全职讲师，后在伦敦大学金史密斯学院（Goldsmiths, University of London）做访问学者。早期的作品主要围绕亚文化、媒介和文化传承，近作则聚焦于艺术世界和艺术市场。

经常以艺术史学者与社会学家的双重角色为文剖析艺术世界的人生百态与社会各种次文化中的现象。桑顿的《艺术世界中的七天》与《俱乐部文化》（Club Cultures）二书出版后甚受好评，并曾译成多种文字。她...

【作者介绍】

萨拉·桑顿，作家，文化社会学家。出生于加拿大，目前定居伦敦，曾为《经济学人》当代艺术的首席撰稿记者。于加拿大蒙特利尔的康考迪亚大学（Concordia University）取得艺术史专业的硕士学位，于格拉斯哥的思克莱德大学（University of Strathclyde）取得社会学博士学位。萨塞克斯大学（University of Sussex）的全职讲师，后在伦敦大学金史密斯学院（Goldsmiths, University of London）做访问学者。早期的作品主要围绕亚文化、媒介和文化传承，近作则聚焦于艺术世界和艺术市场。

经常以艺术史学者与社会学家的双重角色为文剖析艺术世界的人生百态与社会各种次文化中的现象。桑顿的《艺术世界中的七天》与《俱乐部文化》（Club Cultures）二书出版后甚受好评，并曾译成多种文字。她有关当代艺术世界与艺术市场的文章曾在《经济学人》（The Economist）、《艺术论坛》（ArtForum）、《纽约客》（The New Yorker）刊出，她也是英国广播公司电视电台（BBC）与美国国家公共广播电台（NPR）的撰稿人。

【译者介绍】

何云朝，供职于央视，资深译者，译有《地球村里的喧嚣》《设计的魔力》《从柠檬到柠檬汁》。