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Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Art styles, 1960 - > Conceptual art
In the fateful month of March 2000, shortly after opening a hugely
successful show in New York that unveiled the more nefarious
financial connections of Presidential candidate George W. Bush, the
hugely ambitious Conceptual artist Mark Lombardi was found hanged
in his studio, an apparent suicide. With museums lining up to buy
his work, and the fame he had sought relentlessly at last within
his reach, speculation about whether his death was suicide or
murder has titillated the art world ever since. Lombardi was an
enigma who was at once a compulsive truth-teller and a cunning
player of the art game, a political operative and a stubborn
independent, a serious artist and a Merry Prankster, a
metaphysicist if not a scientist.Lombardi's spidery, elusive
diagrams describing the evolution of the shadow-banking industry
from a decades-old alliances between intelligence agencies,
banking, government and organized crime, may have made him unique
in art history as the only artist whose primary subject, the CIA,
has turned around and studied him and his art work. Exhaustively
researched, this is the first comprehensive biography of this
immensely contradictory and brilliantly original artist whose
pervasive influence in not only the art world, but also in the
world of computer science and cyber-security is only now coming to
light.
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