My Life as a Work of Art: The Art World from Start to Finish

　　How to cut through the labyrinthine contemporary art world – from the complex and animated process starting in the mind of an artist to the end in a museum, collector’s property, storage space or dump, via workshops, galleries and art fairs? The best way is to follow the only ‘witness’ to all these developments: the work of art itself. This book follows the ‘life’ of works by eight major contemporary artists, from Martin Creed’s conceptual works and Gregory Crewdson’s photographs (requiring crews and production values similar to that of big budget movies) to Marina Abramović’s performances and Barry McGee’s motorway sound barrier graffiti (touching upon the ambivalent relationship between street art and the art market).

作者簡介

　　Ben Eastham is the co-founder and editor of The White Review. As an arts journalist he has contributed to many publications, including frieze, the New York Times, the London Review of Books and Elephant. He has previously worked as an editor at the BBC.

　　Katya Tylevich is a writer and essayist. She is Editor-at-Large for Elephant and Contributing Editor for Mark. She contributes regularly to Domus, Pin-Up and Frame among other journals, and has contributed to books, monographs and exhibition catalogues on topics in art and architecture. With her brother Alexei, she founded Friend & Colleague, a platform for editions, fiction and special projects.