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Manual Of Contemporary Art Etiquette (Paperback)
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Manual Of Contemporary Art Etiquette (Paperback)
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Loot Price R520
Discovery Miles 5 200
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Youll find all sorts of things in Helgueras Manual that arent in
any other book: the difference between an A-level artist and a
B-level artist, how to cure the dreaded festivalist syndrome, how
to keep your conviction that youre the greatest artist in history,
and whether it is ethical for a critic to sleep with an artist
whose work she doesnt like. This is a very funny book. It
masquerades as an old-fashioned guide to the manners and foibles of
the art world, written by a savvy twenty-first century artist. But
it is clever, and has many voices: snide like Miss Manners, sweet
and impeccable like Emily Post, hapless like Bouvard and Pcuchet,
earnest like an Art World for Dummies, sharp like Swifts
encyclopedia of clichs, sneaky like David Wilsons fabricated
documents for the Museum of Jurassic Technology. Helgueras tongue
seems to be in his cheekthats what youre meant to thinkbut he is
often very helpful, and everything he says is true. --James Elkins,
author of How to Use your Eyes and Our Beautiful, Dry and Distant
Texts: Art History as Writing. In the process of writing the rules
of the game, Helguera also skewers its participants. --Rebeca
Spence, ArtNews An artist who dares to look at the big picture ...
Helguera has a savvy understanding of art history and art
audiences, enough to know that a little humor and a bit of irony
are sometimes the best tools in an artist arsenal. --Barbara
Pollack, artist and writer
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