Art Monster - On the Impossibility of New York

Art Monster takes readers to the margins of the professional art world, populated by unseen artists who make a living working behind the scenes in galleries and museums while making their own art to little acclaim.

List of contents

Author Statement
Part I
1. Other Art Worlds
2. Somewhere Else
3. Over
4. Will You Listen to the Problems of a Stranger?
5. Habiter
6. Art in America
7. Artists I Knew
8. Artistness
Part II
9. Cupcake City
10. Poison
11. Neighborhood
12. Good Housekeeping
13. Handling
14. Melancholia
Part III
15. Yes
16. Hierarchies of Distance
17. Fishing
18. Group Club Association
19. Pay Fauxn
20. Pay Fauxn Manifesto
21. Miracle
22. Oblique Attempts (Toward a Conclusion)
Postscript
Methodological Appendix
CREAP Manifesto
Acknowledgments
Notes

About the author

Marin Kosut has published fiction and nonfiction in Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Cabinet Magazine, Hobart, Rejection Letters, and elsewhere. She founded Pay Fauxn, a gallery in an abandoned pay phone shell at a Brooklyn bus stop. A MacDowell fellowship recipient, she holds a PhD in sociology from the New School and teaches the sociology of art at SUNY Purchase College. She lives in Brooklyn.

Summary

Art Monster takes readers to the margins of the professional art world, populated by unseen artists who make a living working behind the scenes in galleries and museums while making their own art to little acclaim.

Product details

• Authors: Marin Kosut
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.06.2024
• EAN: 9780231186742
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18674-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; New York, New York City, ART / Art & Politics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, ART / Business Aspects, urban arts, Art treatments & subjects, History of the Americas, Art: Financial Aspects, social science; art; history