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Join the art critic Ben Eastham on a private tour of an extraordinary museum. Let him walk you through a building constructed from memory and filled with a series of bewildering art works, while he delivers a guide comprised of personal experience, professional expertise and sympathy.In this stunningly original book, an introduction to contemporary art is combined with the author''s own memories and reflections on what art means. With the help of a cast of interfering security guards, pretentious curators, sceptical visitors, angry protestors and elusive ghosts, Eastham proposes that the art of today offers a way of understanding our increasingly strange and complex times.Eastham doesn''task you to like the artworks in his imaginarymuseum, but offers the tools for you to formulate and express yourown opinion of them.He argues that art should be judged by the feelings it provokes and theconversations it generates: in talking about art, we learn to talk about ourselves and the world in w

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The Imaginary Museum

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      Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
      Published 6 August 2020
      ISBN-13 9780008375423
      978-0008375423
      ISBN-10 0008375429
      Also in:
      Art & Photography The Arts: techniques and principles Theory of art

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Join the art critic Ben Eastham on a private tour of an extraordinary museum. Let him walk you through a building constructed from memory and filled with a series of bewildering art works, while he delivers a guide comprised of personal experience, professional expertise and sympathy.In this stunningly original book, an introduction to contemporary art is combined with the author''s own memories and reflections on what art means. With the help of a cast of interfering security guards, pretentious curators, sceptical visitors, angry protestors and elusive ghosts, Eastham proposes that the art of today offers a way of understanding our increasingly strange and complex times.Eastham doesn''task you to like the artworks in his imaginarymuseum, but offers the tools for you to formulate and express yourown opinion of them.He argues that art should be judged by the feelings it provokes and theconversations it generates: in talking about art, we learn to talk about ourselves and the world in w

      Trade Review

      Praise for Ben Eastham

      “A terrific, ferociously self-effacing writer” Wall Street Journal

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