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.<>

Product details

• Authors: The White Pube, Gabrielle de la Puente, Zarina Muhammad, Muhammad
• Publisher: Particular Books
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 03.10.2024
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art
• EAN: 9780241633762
• ISBN: 978-0-241-63376-2
• Pages: 320
• Dimensions (packing): 14.3 x 22.3 x 3 cm
• Subjects: Art History, Popular Culture, Modern Art, The arts: general issues, Entrepreneurship, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Careers / General, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Interviews, Poverty, 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, Art Market, Interviews / discussions, gifts for artists, sociology a level, sports biographies, business biographies, writing magazine, business of stories, sport autobiography, sports autobiography, art and arcana, art of creativity, conversations with artists