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Selling CCP, Harnden, Raf, Rick etc.
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Originally posted by Fuuma View PostI read most of it in a day (that was also occupied doing other stuff), it's like beach reading. Nothing fantastic and more about being "clever" than anything else. I guess it's good light reading if you like the topic, you're not going to learn incredible stuff unless you don't know about criticism or fairs. Some of the "players" remarks are enlightening, particularly the Christie's girl who explains how painting that are red or blue go for higher in auctions or stupid stuff like that. Art prices =bullshit, but you already knew that.
i don't mean to push, just curious to get an [informed] perspective from outside the field....I mean the ephemeral, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art whose other half is the eternal and the immutable.
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Originally posted by laika View PostThanks for the review. It sounds like you were reading mostly for information, but what did you make of her "argument," if there is one? Isn't the premise something about contemporary art as religion? And I guess I can ask, since it's you, do you feel like the book has sociological or anthropological merit?
i don't mean to push, just curious to get an [informed] perspective from outside the field.
I have no idea if the book has any ethnological merit (that's what it is, contemp. ethnology) as we don't get a glimpse in her process and there is almost no analysis aside from on the cusp ones. This would make sense if it was rigorous observation that is merely a source for future books but not for a self-contained, directed at a large public one. In fact I'd say it's more like 7 long articles on the theme of the contemporary art world, it has this "in the moment", subjective quality which makes it quite entertaining but no dice academically.
One of the problems I have with the book is that it seems to be directed at people who know nothing of the topic, the author feels she need to define naive art and when the chapter on Murakami starts you get to learn what superflat is .Selling CCP, Harnden, Raf, Rick etc.
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Originally posted by josef_k View Postthe yearly book sale just started so I just picked up nabokov's lolita, don't usually read a lot.Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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Originally posted by Faust View PostYou should read some Kafka before this. I recommend the Trial.
i tend to puss out when choosing books. in the end I always stick to the classics and the authors our literature teacher showed down our throats back in school (can't get flaubert out of my head yet).
im about to get "on the beach" by carl hansen for a change, maybe a inappropriate choice for exploring contemporary authors, but what the hell miami beach baby
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Originally posted by josef_k View Posti already have, started off with Metamorphosis and moved on to trial eventually.
i tend to puss out when choosing books. in the end I always stick to the classics and the authors our literature teacher showed down our throats back in school (can't get flaubert out of my head yet).
im about to get "on the beach" by carl hansen for a change, maybe a inappropriate choice for exploring contemporary authors, but what the hell miami beach babyFashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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I heard good things about Goethe, although I still don't understand where the "r" comes from in pronunciation. Where to kop?Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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Just grabbed a bunch more Philip K Dick (Flow my tears the policman said is the first). I can't think of too many author's that seem more SZ appropriate (in aesthetic terms at least). Maybe William Gibson on the pulpier end, or Pynchon on the other...
Also on my goal of reading more contemporary Jewish authors:
Shalom Auslander A Foreskin's Lament One of the most revealing meditations on religious fundamentalism in modern life. Brings a ( darkly comic) personal spin that many of the bestselling academic works on this subject lack.
Micheal Chabon's Kavalier and Klay - I know I've been sleeping on this. Loved the Yiddish Policman's Union so I'm excited.
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I'm readin Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt.. somewhat hilarious I find myself laughing all the time on my way to school. Ah yeah and before I tried to read The Great Gatsby in school but couldnt finish.
If someone needs tips for good german books I can stand by
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