The Road to Parnassus: Artist Strategies in Contemporary Art (eBook)

Rise and Success of Glasgow Artist Douglas Gordon and of the wider YBA generation

Diego Mantoan (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
449 Seiten
Vernon Art and Science Inc. (Verlag)
978-1-62273-051-3 (ISBN)

Inhalt

Introduction Building a career in the visual arts

Chapter 1 Unveiling successful artist strategies
1.1. Way upwards in the field of art: a career start in contemporary art
1.2. From aspiring to established in Swinging Britain: timeframe and research scope
1.3. A "vie raisonné" in recent art history: methods and sources for Douglas Gordon's kick-start
1.4. Beginners strategies, step by step: uncovering early career moves in contemporary art

Chapter 2 A cultural producer in the art system
2.1. Who is an artist: the artist and the art system
2.2. What an artist: Douglas Gordon in the art system
2.3. What does an artist do: players, key resources, strategies in the art system

Chapter 3 Family, society, religion in the Scottish Sixties
3.1. Working class, baby boomers, gender issues: of storytelling, family and education
3.2. Myths, religion, media culture: of reputation, selfimage and early influences

Chapter 4 Art education between Glasgow and London
4.1. Going for art school in the Eighties: of ethnographers, public artists and education reforms
4.2. A tale of two cities and their art schools: the 1980's art scene in London and Glasgow
4.3. Training, but trying already: of environmental art, Freeze and early mischief
4.4. Glasgow outpost in London, London spirit in Glasgow: Gordon in the Capital and the initiation of Transmission

Chapter 5 Southern flames and Northern lights
5.1. Life after art school: self-entrepreneurship and artistrun-spaces for the seminal period
5.2. Early signs of breakthrough: of patrons and dealers, mentors and godfathers, prizes and media
5.3. How to reach far: defining style and production

Chapter 6 Going for more and more, at home and abroad
6.1. All alone in the darkness: big solo smash in Glasgow
6.2. Generational breakthrough: of young rascals and old hands
6.3. Picking the upcoming wave: video and installation art rising
6.4. British art sprawl and export: patronized touring, inland and abroad

Chapter 7 Exploiting each favourable opportunity
7.1. Catching the high-speed train: celebrations for onehundred years of cinema
7.2. A burst on the passing-lane: an unexpected overtaking?
7.3. Finish line and a new start: the Turner Prize goes to Glasgow

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.3.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• ISBN-10: 1-62273-051-8 / 1622730518
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62273-051-3 / 9781622730513