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33 Artists in 3 Acts
33 Artists in 3 Acts
33 Artists in 3 Acts
Audiobook11 hours

33 Artists in 3 Acts

Written by Sarah Thornton

Narrated by Tavia Gilbert

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

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33 Artists in 3 Acts offers unprecedented access to a dazzling range of artists, from international superstars to unheralded art teachers. Sarah Thornton's beautifully paced, fly-on-the-wall narratives include visits with Ai Weiwei before and after his imprisonment and Jeff Koons as he woos new customers in London, Frankfurt, and Abu Dhabi. She meets Yayoi Kusama in her studio around the corner from the Tokyo asylum that she calls home. She snoops in Cindy Sherman's closet, hears about Andrea Fraser's psychotherapist, and spends quality time with Laurie Simmons, Carroll Dunham, and their daughters Lena and Grace.

Through these intimate scenes, 33 Artists in 3 Acts explores what it means to be a real artist in the real world. Divided into three cinematic "acts"-politics, kinship, and craft-it investigates artists' psyches, personas, politics, and social networks. Witnessing their crises and triumphs, Thornton turns a wry, analytical eye on their different answers-and non-answers-to the question, "What is an artist?"
LanguageEnglish
Release dateNov 18, 2014
ISBN9781494577674
33 Artists in 3 Acts

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    I really enjoyed the casual format, whereby Thornton humanizes these iconic artists for us and makes their art personal. However, I wish Thornton had included more (color) images of their works to be paired with their artists.