Join the art critic Ben Eastham on a private tour of an extraordinary museum. Let him walk you through a building constructed from memory and filled with a series of bewildering art works, while he delivers a guide comprised of personal experience, professional expertise and sympathy. Join the art critic Ben Eastham on a private tour of an extraordinary museum. Let him walk you through a building constructed from memory and filled with a series of bewildering art works, while he delivers a guide comprised of personal experience, professional expertise and sympathy. In this stunningly original book, an introduction to contemporary art is combined with the author's own memories and reflections on what art means. With the help of a cast of interfering security guards, pretentious curators, sceptical visitors, angry protestors and elusive ghosts, Eastham proposes that the art of today offers a way of understanding our increasingly strange and complex times. Eastham doesn't ask you to like the artworks in his imaginary museum, but offers the tools for you to formulate and express your own opinion of them. He argues that art should be judged by the feelings it provokes and the conversations it generates: in talking about art, we learn to talk about ourselves and the world in which we live. Praise for Ben Eastham “A terrific, ferociously self-effacing writer” Wall Street Journal A Personal Tour of Contemporary Art featuring ghosts, nudity and disagreements Ben Eastham is editor of ArtReview and co-founder of The White Review. He is the co-author, with Katya Tylevich, of My Life as a Work of Art. A Personal Tour of Contemporary Art featuring ghosts, nudity and disagreements CORE TARGET AUDIENCE OF art-lovers and regular gallery visitors. The book is structured around the idea of an imaginary museum which the author describes, fills with the art works of his choosing, and then guides us through. It is a book to help demystify modern art for people who find it unapproachable. It also increases and deepens the readers' confidence in thinking and talking about modern art and what we see in general. CROSSOVER APPEAL: The book is a cross between a modern art guide and a memoir. The author brings much of his own life as an art critic into the museum; the works he has seen and the people he has met all over the world. A central idea of the book is that when we talk about art, we are beginning to talk about ourselves. The value is in the way that you look at something as much as what you look at.  THE AUTHOR set up The White Review with the founder of Fitzcarraldo Editions. He is now the editor of ArtReview, the biggest international contemporary art magazine, with established readership among those publications. Competition: Ways of Seeing;Playing to the Gallery;Understood;Ways of Looking;The Hare with Amber Eyes;Outline. John Berger;Grayson Parry;Ossian Ward;Edmund de Waal;Rachel Cusk;Ben Lerner
Pubblicato da: HarperCollins Publishers