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Bianca Bosker is the New York Times bestselling author of Cork Dork and a contributing writer at The Atlantic. Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and The Best American Travel Writing, and been recognized with awards from the New York Press Club, Society of Professional Journalists and more. She lives in New York City.
'In Get the Picture - curious but not nave, gossipy but generous, critical but admiring,hilarious but profound - Bosker probes the human thirst for art, examines the addictivehigh it gives and rescues the unfashionable idea of beauty, of the pleasure of creation,from the theorists and the marketeers. This book is sheer pleasure: the best bookI've ever read about contemporary art' - Benjamin Moser, Pulitzer Prize-winningauthor of Sontangand The Upside-Down World 'A brilliant adventure through the fraught, frenzied, fanatical world of art andemerging artists. Bosker flings us into the epicenter of creativity and obsession, andwith infectious curiosity, illuminates the surprising science, history and controversies atthe core of our relationship with art. This book paints an extraordinary picture that willmake your life more beautiful. Put simply, it's a work of art' - Nathaniel Philbrick,author of In the Heart of the Sea 'This book freaked me out. Bosker's accessible, conversational spelunking into theworld of contemporary art so powerfully rehydrated the PTSD in me between the littlekid artist I once was with the self-consciously constricted thinker I became in art schoolthat at one point I simply had to put it down, shaken. If you've ever wondered 'whathappened' to art - galleries, critics, collectors - and, of course, artists - then this bookis a very companionable start. It's also very funny, to say nothing of very vivid. And,confoundingly, very, very difficult to put down' - Chris Ware, author of Building Stories
