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Poor artists / Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad (aka The White Pube).

By: Puente, Gabrielle de la [author.].
Contributor(s): Muhammad, Zarina, 1982- [author.] | White Pube (Writing collective) [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: [Dublin] : Particular Books, 2024Copyright date: ©2024Description: ix, 310 pages ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780241633762 (hardback).Subject(s): Artists -- Economic conditions -- 21st century | Art -- Economic aspects -- 21st century | Art -- Political aspects -- 21st century | Art and society | Art, Modern -- 21st centuryDDC classification: 700.103
Contents:
Warning -- Lemon -- Phrogging -- Studio time -- Wendy -- The mountain -- Royal Tunbridge Wills -- Cilla Black -- Get a job -- Who pays for art to happen? -- The QA -- Maslow -- War of attrition -- The no-show -- Good liars -- The real artists of Beverly Hills -- Mohammad -- Valentine -- Do not disturb -- The group crit -- Uncertainty -- Side quest #1: the Jupiter Residency -- Side quest #2: art hospital -- Inquest -- Nineteenth-century French painter Gustave Courbet -- The art king -- Afterlife -- Mum -- Sheila.
Summary: "'Let me stay there, let me paint. Let me go to bed when the sun comes up. I don't want life to sharpen me.' Why make art? Faced with a capitalist system that has turned art into artwork and creative expression into cut-throat competition, why do so many artists try anyway? In this eye-opening journey through the bizarre world of contemporary art, criticism duo The White Pube tell the story of art like never before. Poor Artists follows aspiring artist Quest Talukdar through childhood obsessions, art school lessons and her professional debut. In surreal encounters with other artists, Quest learns profound truths about money and power, and must decide whether she cares more about success or staying true to herself. Blending imaginative storytelling with dialogue from anonymized interviews with real people in the art world who have all had to wrestle with the same decisions – including a Turner Prize winner or two, a few ghosts, a Venice Biennale fraudster and a communist messiah – Poor Artists is a powerful testimony to the emotional, existential and financial experience of artists today" - inside cover.
Holdings
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General lending MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending 700.103 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00230265
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

At a moment in which working as a professional artist is an increasingly unattainable luxury, art criticism duo The White Pube investigate why so many artists try anyway. Labelled \"the Diet Prada of the art world\" by British Vogue , in Poor Artists writers Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad ridicule a contemporary art world that has turned art into artworks, art schools into art universities, and creative expression into cut-throat competition.

Poor Artists follows aspiring artist Quest Talukdar as she embarks on a surreal journey into the creative industry, where she must decide whether she cares more about success or staying true to herself. Featuring dialogue from anonymous interviews with real people who have all had to ask themselves the same question - including a Turner Prize winner or two, a recluse, a Venice Biennale fraudster, a communist messiah, a ghost, and a literal knight - The White Pube tell the story of art like never before.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-308).

Warning -- Lemon -- Phrogging -- Studio time -- Wendy -- The mountain -- Royal Tunbridge Wills -- Cilla Black -- Get a job -- Who pays for art to happen? -- The QA -- Maslow -- War of attrition -- The no-show -- Good liars -- The real artists of Beverly Hills -- Mohammad -- Valentine -- Do not disturb -- The group crit -- Uncertainty -- Side quest #1: the Jupiter Residency -- Side quest #2: art hospital -- Inquest -- Nineteenth-century French painter Gustave Courbet -- The art king -- Afterlife -- Mum -- Sheila.

"'Let me stay there, let me paint. Let me go to bed when the sun comes up. I don't want life to sharpen me.' Why make art? Faced with a capitalist system that has turned art into artwork and creative expression into cut-throat competition, why do so many artists try anyway? In this eye-opening journey through the bizarre world of contemporary art, criticism duo The White Pube tell the story of art like never before. Poor Artists follows aspiring artist Quest Talukdar through childhood obsessions, art school lessons and her professional debut. In surreal encounters with other artists, Quest learns profound truths about money and power, and must decide whether she cares more about success or staying true to herself. Blending imaginative storytelling with dialogue from anonymized interviews with real people in the art world who have all had to wrestle with the same decisions – including a Turner Prize winner or two, a few ghosts, a Venice Biennale fraudster and a communist messiah – Poor Artists is a powerful testimony to the emotional, existential and financial experience of artists today" - inside cover.

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The White Pube (Author)
The White Pube is the collaborative identity of UK-based critics Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad. They have been turning heads since 2015 when the pair began publishing provocative art reviews and essays online from their art school studios and have earned themselves an international cult following due to their innovative writing style, their honesty and irreverence, and their willingness to challenge the pale, male, stale art establishment. Poor Artists is their first book.