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Bosker embedded herself in galleries, studios and museums to understand how the art world works and how to look at art.
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Art, Culture & Creative Life
Get the Picture
A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
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Published by
Viking (Penguin Random House)
Get the Picture is a work of immersive journalism by Bianca Bosker, published by Viking in February 2024.
- Published
- 2024
- Pages
- 384
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
How do you learn to actually see art?
Bianca Bosker, a journalist with no formal training, decided to find out by throwing herself into the contemporary art world - working as a gallery assistant, guarding paintings as a museum attendant, moving in with artists and sleeping in studios. Get the Picture is the funny, self-deprecating, deeply reported result, and it doubles as a crash course in how the art market really works and what looking can do to a person.
Bosker is an ideal guide precisely because she starts as an outsider, asking the naive questions insiders have forgotten to. intendle recommends it for anyone intimidated by galleries or curious about the machinery behind them. An instant New York Times bestseller and a best book of 2024 at NPR, TIME and The Economist, it is immersive journalism at its most entertaining.
You will leave it wanting to stand in front of a painting far longer than you used to.
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384
Published
2024
Viking (Penguin Random House)
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Hardcover
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English
Art, Culture & Creative Life
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978-0525562207
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