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Title: Most Art Sucks: Five Years of Coagula by Walter Robinson, Tom Patchett, Mat Gleason, Tom Patenett ISBN: 1-889195-16-2 Publisher: Smart Art Press Pub. Date: October, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: True art history
Comment: This book was a gift and what most impressed me was that I easily understood the essays, but none of them sacraficed intelligence (or humor) to make their point. The ease at which the Coagula writers discuss sophisticated art and artists is the true gem of this book, despite its being packaged as a gossip sheet rewind. Nobody here is trying to sound intelligent, they already are and aim their brains at the despicable cretins controlling art careers and museums.
Rating: 4
Summary: punk 'zine for the art world
Comment: It's not a matter of whether or not you should buy this book; if you're interested in American art world goings-on then you're kind of obligated to--Coagula is the only art criticism that pointedly addresses the art MARKET (and how the art/artists exist within it).
You'd think there would be more punks (as in anti-corporate, anti-authority--not as in the most girlish boy in the jailhouse) in the art world, but while there's tons of punk art FANS, there's virtually no punk dealers, writers, or even--surprisingly enough--punk visual ARTISTS (as these guys know, deflating such wanna-bes or once-weres as Chris Burden, Mike Kelley, even Pollock. Granted, it's hard to be punk when your livelihood depends on a certain elitist realm of society embracing you & your work, so it's no surprise that successful anti-establishment [oxymoron?] artists don't stay that way). Dealers, writers, and artists are so intensely dependent on one another that they all allow each other to get away with murder, and it takes a couple punks like these 2 guys to tell it like it is (Peter Schjeldahl does a good job of it, but these guys have nothing to lose and it shows.)
This book covers 5 years of Coagula from the mid-90s, but its scope is rather small; it's entirely about LA and NYC (it doesn't profess to address anything more) and is mostly written by one guy in each city, and they do seem to keep coming back to the same artists, dealers, and writers...though that's probably just a reflection of the fact that the NY and LA art worlds are driven by a small and incestuous circle. There's also a weird west-coasty fixation on performance art (Karen Finley's their recently-crowned Artist of The Decade), some curiously violent bile toward some seemingly benign folks (Frank Stella gets it BAD), and lots of bullets at easy targets, but the writing is so consistently smart & funny & ACCURATE! (It's not all negative though--they aggressively, and intelligently, champion the artists and art-world-peeps they like.)
Look, though you may admit it to no one but yourself, you're probably intimidated by certain people in the art world, confused by the art magazines, and made to feel dumb for not "getting" certain artists. This book will make you trust yourself--and laugh.
Rating: 4
Summary: Funny and biting.
Comment: This bile-filled indictment of the art world deserves praise for its honesty and its humor. If you know about art, but don't feel like you're part of the world, buy this book.
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Title: True Colors: The Real Life of the Art World by Anthony Haden-Guest ISBN: 0871137259 Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: I Bought Andy Warhol by Richard Polsky ISBN: 0810942712 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Art Dealers: The Powers Behind the Scene Tell How the Art World Really Works by Laura De Coppet, Alan Jones, Laura De Coppet ISBN: 0815412452 Publisher: Cooper Square Press Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Passionate Collector: Eighty Years in the World of Art by Roy R. Neuberger ISBN: 0471273430 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 13 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Tales from the Art Crypt : The painters, the museums, the curators, the collectors, theauctions, the art by RICHARD FEIGEN ISBN: 039457169X Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 20 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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