Never be an artist

Author: Li Yong
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: This book is primarily based on field research conducted among professional artists in the field of art. The author spent three years using cameras, recorders, and video cameras as tools to complete a documentary field research text through methods such as oral interviews, descriptions, spoken writing, images, video recordings, and audio editing. It genuinely, comprehensively, and objectively reveals the unknown aspects of this unique group among the masses, reflecting the real current state of the creative, living, family, love, and inner worlds of professional artists in Beijing, showcasing the magnificent scene of contemporary art in Beijing at the beginning of the 21st century. The book includes the practical experiences and struggles of over a hundred artists navigating Beijing. Through conversations with the artists, readers will learn how they sell paintings, achieve success, gain fame, face poverty, and talk about love. The book is accompanied by over 260 documentary photographs. Through this book, you can read the author's contradictory and unconvincing artistic views, his wavering and irresponsible thoughts that blur black and white, the intricate and meaningless garbled symbols, and his clever and agile conversational, as if a fly that hasn't bathed for three years lands unhesitatingly on a flower. His sickly and sticky syntax, the shocking and ubiquitous self-published poetry and prose, and the skillfully taken photographs that shoot around without fear of fines are like a large mosquito flying through the vast universe, breaking through the enemy's net at the speed of "Enemy Killer" and plunging into the depths of love. Reading "Never Be an Artist" is like reading contemporary art history as a novel!!! Wishing everyone a good appetite!!!