Sarah Thornton
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
xix, 274 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
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 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...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"After years of biopsies, best-selling author Sarah Thornton made the difficult decision to have a double mastectomy. But, after her reconstructive surgery, she was perplexed: What had she lost? And gained? An experienced sleuth, she resolved to venture behind the scenes to uncover the social and cultural significance of breasts"--