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This book may not be all the way relevant right now, as Sarah Thornton’s Seven Days In the Art World, was written before the current economic break down, when the art market was booming, and contemporary art became the new form of mass entertainment, as well as luxury goods, and for many, a kind of alternate religion. this is what Sarah Thornton herself says about the book:
I have yet to read the book, but it seems to me as if this is a book that is set with modern culture, fast and furious in mind. It embarrasses me to admit that I would probably find a narrative, broken into different scenario’s like this, easier to follow than another long and theorising spiel about the art world.
It seems encompass all the players in the art world there for supplying a good and wide point of view.
Cara Ober from BmoreArt says
Does the role of money, power, and elitism in contemporary art drive creativity, taste, and a search for meaning or is it the other way around? Thornton presents a chicken-or-the-egg conundrum, but makes it impossible to ignore the role of the market, even within the hallowed halls of educational institutions and the privacy of the artist’s studio. Several years ago I think I would have been horrified by this realization, but these days I am more interested in considering and acknowledging certain facts, in being educated about harsh realities as well as the game that artists, critics, and collectors play.
Most of us start from the pure state of Idealism and unfortunately, or not, meet up with the real world and all that entails not necessarily under the best of circumstances or in the most pleasant way.
