33 Artists in 3 Acts Audiobook

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• “Inspiring—as unique as each of the artists featured.”

  — Los Angeles Times

• With effortless sophistication, Thornton takes readers on a journey across the globe and into the homes and minds of contemporary artists.

  — Publishers Weekly Starred Review

• “A vivid and entertaining read…Thornton meets some interesting artists and her direction can be playful. Her interviews with Andrea Fraser stand out, as do all her meetings with Ai Weiwei.”

  — Guardian (London)

• “Writing with verve, insight, and authenticity…Thornton’s method is to let her hubristic subjects hang themselves by their own nooses. She is skillfully nuanced on the artist Christian Marclay.”

  — Financial Times

• “[Thornton’s] interviews, interwoven to show conjunctions and contrasts, cohere into a strong three-part whole: first politics, then kinship, and finally, a readable interrogation of what’s so often overlooked: craft.”

  — New York magazine

• “A readable, approachable introduction to the rock stars of [contemporary art] and their work.”

  — Christian Science Monitor

• “Engaging and ingenious.”

  — New Statesman

• “How can one be a real artist in the real world? Thornton sets off to find out, meeting and debating with many of the most important artists around the globe. Credibility, integrity, legitimacy, recognition, and truth in art are all tackled here. While the basis of the book is contemporary art, the themes are of universal interest.”

  — Bookseller (London)

• “With effortless sophistication, Thornton takes readers on a journey across the globe and into the homes and minds of contemporary artists. In the process, she banishes cynicism about modern art, revealing it to be a volatile, healthy enterprise still deeply engaged with the world.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “[A]n invaluable, incisive, and exciting guide to today’s deliriously diverse, sophisticated, scandalous, and profound art world.”

  — Booklist (starred review)