What are useful strategies to achieve recognition in the art system? Such questions hoard in students' minds ever since entering art school and they probably chase every kind of art professional who is at an early career stage. The swift career ascension of Glasgow artist Douglas Gordon — one of today's leading visual artists — and of the broader YBA generation that rose into worldwide prominence in the s — Damien Hirst and Sarah Lucas among the best known — serves as a convenient case to analyse contemporary artist strategies.
This book takes a multidisciplinary approach — spanning from traditional art history, to sociology and economics — pursuing the reconstruction of the field of forces in art as intended by French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. The present research should help uncover the art system logic — which appears enigmatic to non-experts — revealing that artists are aware they need to consider global trends, beat competitors and meet the demands of dealers, collectors, curators and museums.
Find Full eBook. The film was an important work in Gordon's early career, and is said to introduce themes common to his work, such as "recognition and repetition, time and memory, complicity and duplicity, authorship and authenticity, darkness and light. I mean, there's no way I'll ever be able to watch all 24 hours of this, except for perhaps in brief snatches, though I might also leave it on the TV while I go about doing other things This is enough for me , to be honest. Not that I wouldn't love to actually visit such an installation and linger for a while!
Thanks to iwatch. Review by iwatch. Of course I only watched a bit of it - life's just too short sometimes. I loved it. Here's a youtube link so you can pretend to walk into a gallery and experience it firsthand. Fond farewell to all the Psychos. We'll meet again I love stuff like this - like a forerunner of those hour Youtube videos of one thing, repeated over and over.
Okay, I've only seen a 5-minute highlight on Youtube, but I would have probably hung around for a few hours, if the seats in whatever gallery it was being shown in were comfortable enough. Review by Furkan R. Review by Z. It is interesting to see how the mystique of Hollywood can be removed through the exposing slowed down footage, where inconsistencies which would usually go unnoticed were made incredibly obvious.
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