True Colors: The Real Life of the Art World
A Nonfiction, Art book. 3.5. Loved the chapters on Schulte and especially on the horrid wretch that...
The Colors covers the past three decades of the American art scene, a period during which the prevailing artistic fashion has shifted as often as the focus of the Whitney Biennial, when art and money, talent and celebrity have often been confused. During this period, figures such as Julian Schnabel, Jeff Koons, and Keith Haring have crossed over from the rarefied world of high art into popular culture, and art dealers, like Hollywood power agents, have often claimed as much attention as those they represented. Anthony Haden-Guest has moved within this world, known the players, and delivers here an authoritative and deliciously inside account.Focusing on the lives and personalities of the art world's main players, and with a sure critical component, Haden-Guest gives us vivid portraits of the period's key artists as they strive to fulfill their ambitions. He does justice as well to the machinations of those who have come to control the larger drama -- the dealers, collectors,...
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- Pages: 352 pages
- ISBN: 9780871137258 / 871137259
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This will appeal to a very small demographic: people interested in the New York art world of the 1980s. But for those of us in that group, the inside stories and the gossip are priceless. The book actually begins in the 70s (roughly where Tom Wolfe's The Painted Word ended) and ends in the mid-90s, and it takes little side trips to... "True Colors: The Real Life of the Art World" is a gossipy, name-dropping history of the hothouse art scene in New York City in the 1970s and 1980s. It's a little like reading the privately-published memoirs of a tiresomely infighting family. While the parties, auctions, feuds, and events of this book are no doubt of great interest... 3.5. Loved the chapters on Schulte and especially on the horrid wretch that was Donald Judd. This is not so much a historical document as a series of nightlife columns done up in the sophisticated trappings of High Art. Nothing wrong with that, especially when we are talking about the go-go 80s where culture and cocaine were basically...
