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- catalog abstract "The last quarter century has been an extraordinary and turbulent period in the art world. It was a time of creative intensity during which a handful of artists, like Julian Schnabel, Jeff Koons, Keith Haring, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, managed, in their different ways, to cross over from the rarefied world of high art into popular culture. It was also a time when other promising careers and even whole movements, like Graffiti, spurted to life and then just as suddenly. Disappeared. During the astonishing boom years of the 1980s, the newly vigorous art market transformed the role of dealers and collectors to give them unprecedented power as tastemakers and the dangerous glamour of Hollywood power agents. And then came the bust. Writer Anthony Haden-Guest has moved within the art world, known the players, and reported on the scene for this entire span of time. True Colors draws on two decades of reporting to deliver an authoritative and. Deliciously inside account of the contemporary art world that will be the most talked-about book on art since The Shock of the New. Haden-Guest gives vivid portraits of the art world's key players and dramatizes the pivotal moments in the always evolving scene. Skillfully conveying a sense of the intricate geography of the art world, he tells of its clashes of ambition, its intrigues, its power plays. This is how artists survive, or don't survive. True Colors is filled. With telling anecdotes and expertly told stories that cohere to give a sense of how the art world works, its current state, and where it may be going.".
- catalog contributor b10143277.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "Deliciously inside account of the contemporary art world that will be the most talked-about book on art since The Shock of the New. Haden-Guest gives vivid portraits of the art world's key players and dramatizes the pivotal moments in the always evolving scene. Skillfully conveying a sense of the intricate geography of the art world, he tells of its clashes of ambition, its intrigues, its power plays. This is how artists survive, or don't survive. True Colors is filled.".
- catalog description "Disappeared. During the astonishing boom years of the 1980s, the newly vigorous art market transformed the role of dealers and collectors to give them unprecedented power as tastemakers and the dangerous glamour of Hollywood power agents. And then came the bust. Writer Anthony Haden-Guest has moved within the art world, known the players, and reported on the scene for this entire span of time. True Colors draws on two decades of reporting to deliver an authoritative and.".
- catalog description "Introduction -- The birth of the contemporary art market at the Scull sale, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, on October 18, 1973 -- The avant-garde and its enemies -- Racing demons -- Joseph Kosutz has an idea -- Dennis Oppenheim and Michael Heizer head for the wild blue yonder -- Chris Burden and Bas Jan Ader go boating -- Piero Manzoni goes to the bathroom -- And other adventures in the last days of Modernism -- I'm painting, I'm painting again -- Surviving in the lean time and back to the easel -- New spirits -- Julian Schnabel leaves the kitchen and America discovers Europe -- The heat and the cool -- Wild style -- Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and the Lower East Side -- Cindy Sherman is not quite herself -- The selling of Jeff Koons -- Boom -- Jasper Johns and Vincent Van Gogh meet Saddam Hussein -- The dark side -- The bombing of Rob Scholte -- More -- The anger of Donald Judd -- The Saviors -- Damien Hirst bisects a cow -- Matthew Barney climbs the walls -- Janine Antoni loses important body parts -- Other next big things -- James Turrell's volcano and other millennial signs.".
- catalog description "The last quarter century has been an extraordinary and turbulent period in the art world. It was a time of creative intensity during which a handful of artists, like Julian Schnabel, Jeff Koons, Keith Haring, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, managed, in their different ways, to cross over from the rarefied world of high art into popular culture. It was also a time when other promising careers and even whole movements, like Graffiti, spurted to life and then just as suddenly.".
- catalog description "With telling anecdotes and expertly told stories that cohere to give a sense of how the art world works, its current state, and where it may be going.".
- catalog extent "vi, 344 p., [32] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0871136600".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Atlantic Monthly Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "709/.73/09045 20".
- catalog subject "Art United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Art and society United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Art, American 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Art, American.".
- catalog subject "Art, Modern 20th century United States.".
- catalog subject "Artists United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "N6512 .H28 1996".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- The birth of the contemporary art market at the Scull sale, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, on October 18, 1973 -- The avant-garde and its enemies -- Racing demons -- Joseph Kosutz has an idea -- Dennis Oppenheim and Michael Heizer head for the wild blue yonder -- Chris Burden and Bas Jan Ader go boating -- Piero Manzoni goes to the bathroom -- And other adventures in the last days of Modernism -- I'm painting, I'm painting again -- Surviving in the lean time and back to the easel -- New spirits -- Julian Schnabel leaves the kitchen and America discovers Europe -- The heat and the cool -- Wild style -- Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and the Lower East Side -- Cindy Sherman is not quite herself -- The selling of Jeff Koons -- Boom -- Jasper Johns and Vincent Van Gogh meet Saddam Hussein -- The dark side -- The bombing of Rob Scholte -- More -- The anger of Donald Judd -- The Saviors -- Damien Hirst bisects a cow -- Matthew Barney climbs the walls -- Janine Antoni loses important body parts -- Other next big things -- James Turrell's volcano and other millennial signs.".
- catalog title "True colors : the real life of the art world / Anthony Haden-Guest.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".