"An indelible portrait of a peculiar society." —Vogue
Sarah Thornton's vivid ethnography—an international hit, now available in twenty translations—reveals the inner workings of the sophisticated subcultures that make up the contemporary art world. In a series of day-in-the-life narratives set in New York, Los Angeles, London, Basel, Venice, and Tokyo, Seven Days in the Art World explores the dynamics of creativity, taste, status, money, and the search for meaning in life.
Sarah Thornton's Seven Days in the Art World was named one of the best art books of the year by the New York Times and is available in sixteen languages. She was the chief writer on contemporary art for the Economist. She holds a BA in art history and a PhD in sociology.
“Money, pretension, horrid behavior by cultured people” (New York) —John Anderson’s tale delivers it all
in fabulously juicy detail. This is the story of how a fabled art foundation—the greatest collection of impressionist and postimpressionist art in America, including 69 ...
Launched in 2004, the Art/Shop/Eat pocket guides combine a great contemporary look with the thoroughness
of research expected from a Blue Guide publication, making them the perfect choice for the weekend or short-break tourist or business visitor. Selective high-quality coverage ...
Launched in 2004, the Art/Shop/Eat pocket guides combine a great contemporary look with the thoroughness of research
expected from a Blue Guide publication, making them the perfect choice for the weekend or short-break tourist or business visitor. Selective high-quality coverage of the ...
“Essential to contemporary poetry collections.”—Library Journal In his fourteenth collection, Stephen Dunn, “one of our
indispensable poets” (Miami Herald), continues to probe brilliantly the unsaid and the elusive in the lives we live, in language that Gerald Stern has called ...
What happened to the survivors of the infamous Bataan Death March in World War II?
In a new edition of this classic account, Sidney Stewart gives one man's gripping answer. In April 1942, Sidney Stewart, a 21-year-old U.S. Army enlisted ...
The twentieth century's greatest American dissenter has written a study of the five men whose
own dissents helped shape the western world — Socrates, Galileo, Tom Paine, Wendell Phillips, and Gandhi. Conformity to custom, Mr. Thomas believes, is essential to ...
“This ambitious, adventurous writer . . . recalls Anton Chekhov with his amused appreciation of
human foibles.”—Wendy Smith, Chicago Tribune The sky is falling for the Caspers, a family of cowards. When the parents decide to separate, this family is ...
The first easy-to-navigate illustrated guidebook to the wonderful sculptures, murals, bas-reliefs, and mosaics of this
Art Deco showplace. From the depths of the Great Depression in 1929, John D. Rockefeller Jr. envisioned an unprecedented, modern, and luxurious building project. Given ...
