Search results for ""Author Sarah Thornton""
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Club Cultures: Music, Media and Subcultural Capital
This is an innovative contribution to the study of popular culture, focusing on the youth cultures that revolve around dance clubs and raves.
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Pan Macmillan Tits Up
Sarah Thornton is a sociologist who writes about art, design and people. Formerly the chief art market correspondent for The Economist, she is the author of three previous books. Her second, Seven Days in the Art World was an international bestseller, published in eighteen languages, and named one of the best art books of the year by the New York Times. Sarah has written for The Guardian, W, Art Basel, Cultured, among others. A skilled interviewer and engaging public speaker, Sarah has given hundreds of talks around the world and contributed to NPR, Netflix, ZDF and BBC radio and TV. A Canadian who went to the UK on a prestigious Commonwealth Scholarship, Thornton was hailed as Britain's hippest academic. Now based in San Francisco, Thornton is better known as the Jane Goodall of the art world. She is the author of Tits Up.
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Pan Macmillan Tits Up
Boobs. Knockers. Jugs. Cans. Baps. Melons. Puppies. Fun bags. Bosoms. Hooters.In the English language there are over 700 expressions for female mammary glands – the majority of which are mostly used by men. In Tits Up, bestselling author, sociologist and journalist Sarah Thornton asks how is it that we look at breasts so much, but reflect on them so little.It was after Sarah underwent a double mastectomy and reconstructive surgery that she found herself considering how we think about breasts, and what that tells us about ourselves. Across five chapters, she encounters strippers, plastic surgeons, bra designers, modern witches, lactation experts and donors to breast milk banks to create the ultimate biography of humanity's most culturally important body part.Surprising, sharp, tender and true, Tits Up explores how women’s chests shape our ideas of beauty, health, respect, self-esteem and equality. Blending real-life account
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Granta Books Seven Days In The Art World
Contemporary art has become a mass entertainment, a luxury good, a job description and, for some, a kind of alternative religion. Sarah Thornton's shrewd and entertaining fly-on-the-wall narrative takes us behind the scenes of the art world, from art school to auction house, showing us how it works, and giving us a vivid sense of being there.
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Granta Books 33 Artists in 3 Acts
Is being an artist a radical form of entrepreneurship or a vocational calling like the priesthood? Is it an extension of philosophy or an offshoot of entertainment? In three richly interlinked but distinct 'acts' - Politics, Kinship and Craft - Sarah Thornton compares and contrasts answers to the simple but profound question: what is an artist? 33 Artists in 3 Acts draws on hundreds of personal encounters with the world's most important artists, to ask what it means to be making artworks in different parts of the world today. With Thornton as expert guide and trusted insider, we have unprecedented access to the lives of the artists, from late-night Skype chats with Ai Weiwei to taxi rides with Maurizio Cattelan on the way to and from the show that announces his death. We join Thornton as she rummages through artists' studios, homes and solo shows, inquiring about everything from their bank accounts to their bedrooms. The result is a series of cinematic experiences, which juxtapose artists in thought-provoking ways, and build up narratives that end with epiphanies. 33 Artists in 3 Acts is a generational touchstone, a powerful triptych and gripping anti-monograph about truth, integrity, credibility and recognition. Essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary art, this masterful act of storytelling will also delight any reader seeking to understand creative lives.
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Edhasa Siete días en el mundo del arte
Desde los 80, el arte se ha convertido en el movimiento cultural por excelencia. Varias generaciones de artistas han contribuido a que así fuera, pero eso no es suficiente para explicar su lugar preponderante. En paralelo, un mercado que ya estaba desarrollado creció y se multiplicó varias veces, conformando al mismo tiempo un microcosmos con leyes propias, personalidades de leyenda y eventos paradigmáticos.Traducido a diez idiomas, este libro delicioso y asombrosamente bien informado, fruto de varios años de investigación y de viajes por Estados Unidos, Europa y Asia, abre las puertas de ese universo secreo y revela su grandeza y sus excesos. Con una prosa vibrante y una aguda capacidad de análisis, Sarah Thornton es capaz de detectar lo que se oculta tras la frivolidad y señalar con autoridad a los mejores artistas de nuestro tiempo.
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Edhasa 33 artistas en 3 actos
¿Qué es ser un artista? ¿Tal vez una forma radical de espíritu emprendedor o una vocación profesional como el sacerdocio? ¿O más bien una rama de la filosofía o una forma más de entretenimiento?En tres «actos» distintos, aunque interrelacionados –Política, Afinidades y Oficio–, Sarah Thornton compara y contrasta las respuestas a la simple pero a su vez complicada pregunta ¿Qué es un artista?33 artistas en 3 actos está contruida a partir de centenares de encuentros personales que Thornton ha tenido con los artistas más importantes del mundo, momento en que les preguntaba lo que significa para ellos crear trabajos artísticos, en diferentes partes del mundo, hoy en día. Con Thornton como guía experta y privilegiada, en este libro por primera vez tenemos acceso directo a la vida de artistas destacados, ya sea a través de charlas a altas horas de la noche, por Skype, con Ai Weiwi, o de viajes en taxi con Maurizio Cattelan de camino hacia el espectáculo donde va a anunciar su muerte. Así, vamos de la mano con la autora mientras hurga en los estudios o los propios shows de los artistas, lanzándoles pregunta sobre cualquier cosa, desde sus cuentas bancarias a la intimidad de su dormitorio. El resultado: una serie de experiencias cinematográficas de todos los artistas, de una forma yuxtapuesta que ayuda a reflexionar y, así, construir una narración que termina a modo de epifanía…
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