The Imaginary Museum: A Personal Tour of Contemporary Art Featuring Ghosts, Nudity, and Disagreements

The Imaginary Museum: A Personal Tour of Contemporary Art Featuring Ghosts, Nudity, and Disagreements

The Imaginary Museum: A Personal Tour of Contemporary Art Featuring Ghosts, Nudity, and Disagreements

The Imaginary Museum: A Personal Tour of Contemporary Art Featuring Ghosts, Nudity, and Disagreements

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Overview

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 audiobook, 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, skeptical 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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780008459307
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Publication date: 12/29/2020
Product dimensions: 5.30(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Matt Bates is a voice actor who can be heard in video games, documentaries, audiobooks, and other media.

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