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Babble /
Charles Saatchi - famously - refuses to be interviewed, but his 60+ essays in 'Babble' give a revealing insight into his forthright and often controversial views on a wide-ranging number of topics. From 'The hideousness of the art world', 'Being thick is no obstacle to being...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Booth-Clibborn Editions,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Child abuse? Guilty on all counts.; Your last meal on Death Row.; God only knows. Have we failed Him, or has He failed us?; How nuts is your shrink?; My love affair with Orson Welles.; Politicians are not hypocrites.; The hideousness of the art world.; Green with vanity.; Growing old is better than not.; Smoking is a dying art.; What would Turner do?; Socializing for party duds.; Are museums fooling the public, or themselves?; Would you rather keep fit, or keep alive?; Love may be blind, but marriage is an eye-opener.
- Take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism. Good is the enemy of great?; Was Rothko closer to God than us?; The Beatles didn't create Beatlemania. It was Franz Liszt.; Could you draw an accurate map of Europe from memory?; The jet set have flown away.; Advertising is easy money for school dropouts.; Lucky for me, there's no justice in this world.; Being thick is no obstacle to being a successful artist.; Lobbying for Beginners.; The poorer you are at poker, the richer you are in friends.; I miss the Mafia.; War doesn't determine who's right, war determines who's left.
- Is the theatre clapped out?Your tour guide to artist studios.; Even vegetarians eat cellulose.; Crippled by cliché.; People don't spit at women wearing leather.; This is no time to make new enemies.; There are worse writers than me, published every day.; If it can't be explained by science, try a séance.; Art fairs are not fair to art.; Too many cock-ups to remember, but one I never forget.; Is good luck or bad luck passed on genetically?; Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.; Ancient Romans didn't throw-up their food in vomitoria.
- It takes a brave man not to be a hero in the Red Army. Having the memory of a goldfish is probably better than having mine.; There is no future living in the past.; Modern art can make you sick.; Man bites mosquito.; Not all conspiracy theories can be crackpot, can they?; Is it only perverts that download sex filth onto their computers?; Seven Deadly Sins vs. Seven Heavenly Virtues.; I am not as old as I look.; Are children today more advanced than we were?; What's the best age to become an art star? 4? Or 94?; It isn't business. It's just personal.; Painting is a blind man's profession.
- What is the most painful memory you have?London's Olympics
- best enjoyed abroad.; Interesting facts to bore a bore with.; Which is the worst phobia, fear of spiders or fear of cocktail parties?; Knowing yourself well, would you choose you as a friend?; Do you have a toilet face?; Isn't everybody schizophrenic, or is it just me?; Love means forever having to say you're sorry.; The sword is mightier than the pen.