Author: BANKOWSKY, JACK; GINGERAS, ALISON M.; WOOD, CATHERINE (EDS)
Title: Pop life: art in a material world / edited by Jack Bankowsky, Alison M. Gingeras and Catherine Wood
Description: London: Tate Pub 2009. 1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. As New. Physical description; 207 p.: ill. (some col.). ports.; 28 cm. Notes; Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Tate Modern. London. Oct. 1. 2009-Jan. 17. 2010. at the Hamburger Kunsthalle. Feb. 15-May 9. 2010. and at the National Gallery of Canada. Ottawa. June 11-Sept. 19. 2010. Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-193). Includes essays by Scott Rothkopf and Nicholas Cullinan. Contents; Pop life / Jack Bankowsky -- Made in heaven: Jeff Koons and the invention of the art star / Scott Rothkopf -- Capitalist realness / Catherine Wood -- Dreams that money can buy / Nicholas Cullinan -- Lost in translation: the politics of identity in the work of Takashi Murakami / Alison M. Gingeras. Summary; This provocative and entertaining book examines how certain artists. from Salvador Dali to Damien Hirst. have wholeheartedly embraced both the cult of celebrity and the commercial cut and thrust of the art market. It poses the question: which came first. the global media or this new breed of artist? Would a figure like Andy Warhol have risen to a pre-eminent position in daily life in the latter half of the 20th century without a celebrity-hungry media reporting on his actions? The book examines those who have engaged directly with trading their own wares. including Keith Haring selling his pictures in his Pop Shop. Takashi Murakami licensing his designs to big business. and Hirst auctioning his own works at Sotheby's. They are joined by those who have taken an active role in manufacturing their own public personae. including Gilbert & George. Martin Kippenberger and Tracey Emin. Jeff Koons' celebration in painting and sculpture of his marriage and sexual union with porn star and latter-day politician Illona Staller (aka La Cicciolina) is just one example of an artist crossing the usually accepted boundaries between the public and the personal. revelling in and manipulating the response of the media to their own actions. Other artists examined in the book have adopted different strategies. including working under assumed identities. appropriating the visual culture of ethnic groups to which they don't belong or adopting the identities of prostitutes. stalkers or avid fans. All play their part in this fascinating and extensively illustrated book that accompanies a major exhibition at Tate Modern. Subjects; Warhol. Andy 1928-1987 - Exhibitions. Bickerton. Ashley 1959-. Emin. Tracey 1963-. Tutti. Cosey Fanni. Koons. Jeff 1955-. Murakami. Takashi 1962-. Uklanski. Piotr 1968-. Haring. Keith 1958-1990. Hirst. Damien 1965-. Kippenberger. Martin 1953-1997. Art and society - History - 20th century - Exhibitions. Art and society - History - 21st century - Exhibitions. Art - Marketing - History - 20th century - Exhibitions. Art - Marketing - History - 21st century - Exhibitions. Art. Modern - 20th century - Exhibitions. Art. Modern - 21st century - Exhibitions. Art and society - 20th century - Exhibitions. Art and society - 21st century - Exhibitions. Art - [Late 20th Century - Exhibitions]. Art - [Late 20th Century - International]. Art and popular culture - Exhibitions. Pop art - History. POP ART - 20TH CENTURY - VISUAL ARTS. Contemporary art. Economics of art. ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945). Weight in Kg appr.:

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