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Get the Picture, Bianca Bosker
Bianca Bosker

Get the Picture

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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

In Cork Dork, Bianca Bosker trained her insatiable curiosity, journalist's knack for infiltrating exclusive circles and eye for unforgettable characters on the wine world as she trained to become a sommelier. Now she brings her whip-smart yet accessible sensibility along for a ride through another subculture of elite obsessives.

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 colour 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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426 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2024
Publication year
2024
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
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  • Valentinahas quoted8 months ago
    The evening threw into stark relief what I’d lost these last few months: the sense that anything was possible. The rules, as I knew them, did not have to apply. Art had taught me to embrace an improvlike Yes, and . . . approach to life. So many paths and possibilities seemed open. There was beauty everywhere, now that I knew how to look for it.
  • Valentinahas quoted8 months ago
    Only I wish I’d learned sooner to stay in the work. To slow down. To demote context and ignore the press release. To let myself focus on the physical creation of the piece and the physical feeling of standing in front of it.
  • Valentinahas quoted8 months ago
    Beauty was not expensive or a luxury or hard to come by. It was attention that was in short supply.
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