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Get the Picture
- A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
- Narrated by: Bianca Bosker
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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Summary
In Get the Picture, Bosker plunges deep inside the world of art and the people who live for it: gallerists, collectors, curators and, of course, artists themselves—the kind who work multiple jobs and let their paintings sleep soundly in the studio while they wake up covered in cat pee on a friend's couch. As she stretches canvases until her fingers blister, talks her way into A-list parties full of billionaire collectors, has her face sat on by a nearly naked performance artist and forces herself to stare at a single sculpture for an hour straight while working as a museum security guard, she discovers not only the inner workings of the art-canonization machine but also a more expansive way of living.
Encompassing everything from color theory to evolutionary biology, and from ancient cave paintings to Instagram as it attempts to discern art's role in our culture, our economy and our hearts, Get the Picture is a rollicking adventure that will change the way you see forever.
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- Digirati
- 29-08-24
Riveting story with great and unexpected insights
Well written, well told and a riveting story to boot, with great and unexpected insights. Well worth listening too! Makes me want to look for more like this on audible to expand my art appreciation more. It did go a little off beam when it strayed into analysing art in a more academic way. I have done a recent Master of Arts degree in the UK in cultural policy, which had a semester on understanding art. So when Bianca started making a few quotes from my art history classes that was weird! But 95% of the book stays with practical reality, which I liked. Also, the book has to be taken as a piece of work from a particular place and time. It focuses on contemporay artists in New York and its entire context and being revolves around New York as the clear centre of the art world. I know NY is important, but this book is not about balance, it is about an up close and personal exploration of how art ticks in one place and one time, and for that it works well. Highly recommended.
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- RKG
- 19-08-24
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I liked the beginning and I didn’t like the middle and lost all interest towards the end. The writer drops names all along the way to show she knows them? To show she is well connected with the art scene? Whatever the reason it seems pretentious and not purposeful. A personal pet project I can understand but a book ?? That I don’t understand.
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