Synopsis
A raucous skewering of the art world as told by a master of absurdity
Matthew Thurber’s Art Comic is a blunt and hilarious assault on the swirling hot mess that is the art world. From sycophantic fans to duplicitous gallerists, fatuous patrons to self-aggrandizing art stars, he lampoons each and every facet of the eminently ridiculous industry of truth and beauty....
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02 October 2018
9781770463004Reviews
“If there is such planet as the Art World, then Matthew Thurber is an intergalactic ranger and Art Comic is the trippy travelogue. Thurber turbo-charges through a vast and vapid landscape; one where wishes wither, hopes get popped, and dreams die or otherwise get coopted by fat-heads and bullies. Along the way we meet top-hatted wannabes, art handlers, maligned piggies, violently vengeful knights, and my favorite, the inhabitants of UXOBI, ‘where fecal matter is the only artistic medium that has ever existed.’ Take me there! For it is in Art Comic we meet our most alien selves.”—Jim Drain
“A blistering take on the art world… Thurber’s absurd narrative takes to task the often farcical nature of a notoriously self-aggrandizing industry.”—Artsy’s Holiday Gift Guide
“[Art Comic] mercilessly deflates the pomposity of the mainstream art world.”—Blouin Artinfo
“Thurber’s at his best experimenting with a wide array of visual techniques, none of which get tiresome, revealing an artist and storyteller who is wonderfully inventive.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
