Poor Artists

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.<>

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Irreverent, provocative and funny . . . at some points it reads like a memoir and at others like a wildly surrealist novel . . . I found it fascinating as someone who knows basically nothing about the art world, but I'd also highly recommend it to anyone who went to art school or works as an artist - I'm sure the experiences it depicts would resonate deeply Dazed

Product details

• Authors: Muhammad, Zarina Muhammad, Gabrielle de la Puente, The White Pube
• Publisher: Particular Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.10.2024
• EAN: 9780241633762
• ISBN: 978-0-241-63376-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 143 mm x 223 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Popular Culture, The arts: general issues, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Careers / General, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Interviews, Social classes, Small businesses and self-employment, Art forms, Art styles not defined by date, Art: Financial Aspects, Poverty and precarity, The Arts: art forms, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Freelance & Self-Employment, Interviews / discussions