| Item type | Current library | Collection | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reference (not for loan) | Library Services Main collection | Print books | 708.21092 HAT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan | 61000730 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This text presents a detailed examination of Charles Saatchi the advertising mogul, who is estimated to spend two million pounds a year buying and displaying contemporary art. It is primarily a hostile critique from an anti-capitalist standpoint. The Saatchi Collection is not permanent - repeated sales and purchases means that it mutates all the time. Exhibitions of the YBAs such as `Sensation' in London and New York ensured maximum publicity and the invention of spurious `art movements', such as the New Neurotic Realism, indicated a desire to determine the course of the history of art. Also considered is the influence Saatchi has exercised on public galleries and institutions. It explains how Saatchi devised a whole value-adding apparatus - collection, gallery, exhibitions, tame critics, books - in order to boost the monetary worth of the art objects he purchased cheaply from young artists desperate for fame.
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