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Matt Lamb


Matt Lamb

The Art of Success
Revised Edition

von: Richard Speer

16,99 €

Verlag: Wiley
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 11.04.2013
ISBN/EAN: 9781118450789
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 400

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<b>A revised edition of the tell-all biography of the businessman turned outsider artist</b> <p>In this no-holds-barred biography of controversial artist Matt Lamb, Richard Speer takes readers on an all-access tour of Lamb's life and times. With true insider access that includes interviews with family and friends and Lamb's own personal archives, the book offers a massively compelling look at the artist's life. The successful millionaire CEO of a family business, Lamb turned away from business and toward painting as a response to a diagnosis of grave illness. Whether that diagnosis was accurate or not, it was the basis for a massive personal transformation, from wealthy but little-known businessman to an artist hailed as the heir of Pablo Picasso. Thumbing his nose at the art establishment that dismissed his work and wealth as the antithesis of starving-artist chic, Lamb dedicated his work to world peace and redefined the art world in the process.</p> <ul> <li>Revised to cover the years leading up to the artist's death in early 2012</li> <li>Tells the story of a truly unique character who succeed spectacularly in the wildly different worlds of business and art</li> <li>This book offers an insider's look at the art world's ultimate "outside insider"</li> </ul> <p>For those who relish tales of larger-than-life personalities who break the mold, <i>Matt Lamb: The Art of Success</i> is a thrilling and enlightening biography of an unforgettable personality.</p>
Introduction xi <p>PART ONE</p> <p>The Prince of Paradox</p> <p>CHAPTER ONE</p> <p>A Portrait of the Starving Artist as Tycoon 3</p> <p>PART TWO</p> <p>The Backstory</p> <p>CHAPTER TWO</p> <p>Butchering Sheep and Sipping Tea 19</p> <p>CHAPTER THREE</p> <p>South Side Story 25</p> <p>CHAPTER FOUR</p> <p>The Love Affair That Began in the Womb 35</p> <p>CHAPTER FIVE</p> <p>Family Business and Other Oxymorons 39</p> <p>CHAPTER SIX</p> <p>The Sales of a Death Man 51</p> <p>CHAPTER SEVEN</p> <p>Drunken Days and Papal Knights 67</p> <p>PART THREE</p> <p>The Crisis</p> <p>CHAPTER EIGHT</p> <p>The Funeral Director Picks His Own Casket 77</p> <p>CHAPTER NINE</p> <p>Misdiagnosis or Miracle? 83</p> <p>PART FOUR</p> <p>The New Life</p> <p>CHAPTER TEN</p> <p>The Undertaker’s New Undertaking 91</p> <p>CHAPTER ELEVEN</p> <p>The Jew, the Nun, the Architect, and the Old Irish Bastard 101</p> <p>CHAPTER TWELVE</p> <p>Lamb Debuts to Rants and Raves 107</p> <p>CHAPTER THIRTEEN</p> <p>The Wake as Collage 113</p> <p>CHAPTER FOURTEEN</p> <p>Power Plays 117</p> <p>CHAPTER FIFTEEN</p> <p>The Tycoon Tackles Gandhi 121</p> <p>CHAPTER SIXTEEN</p> <p>Chaos, Rage, and the White Heat of Passion 127</p> <p>CHAPTER SEVENTEEN</p> <p>Finding Faces in the Clouds 133</p> <p>CHAPTER EIGHTEEN</p> <p>The Spirits Who Live in the Canvas 137</p> <p>CHAPTER NINETEEN</p> <p>The Characters Take the Stage 145</p> <p>PART FIVE</p> <p>The Career Blossoms</p> <p>CHAPTER TWENTY</p> <p>Getting Hammered 155</p> <p>CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE</p> <p>Painting for Pierre Cardin 159</p> <p>CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO</p> <p>Finding Fassbender 163</p> <p>CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE</p> <p>The Doyenne in Leather Pants 171</p> <p>CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR</p> <p>The Dealer with Glow-Stick Nunchucks 177</p> <p>PART SIX</p> <p>The Pope, the Princess, and the Giant Child</p> <p>CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE</p> <p>Painting for the Pope 187</p> <p>CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX</p> <p>The Spiritualist Takes On the Mall of America 191</p> <p>CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN</p> <p>The Knight and the Princess 195</p> <p>CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT</p> <p>Giant Child 203</p> <p>CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE</p> <p>Pollyanna Meets Patton 211</p> <p>PART SEVEN</p> <p>The Controversy</p> <p>CHAPTER THIRTY</p> <p>Fuck the Puck 217</p> <p>CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE</p> <p>The Straightjacket as Painting Smock 221</p> <p>CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO</p> <p>There Once Was a Gallerist from Nantucket 227</p> <p>CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE</p> <p>The Media Sharks Tear In 233</p> <p>CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR</p> <p>Outsider, Outschmeider 241</p> <p>PART EIGHT</p> <p>The Present Tense and Future Perfect</p> <p>CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE</p> <p>The Maximalist Wrestles with Minimalism 247</p> <p>CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX</p> <p>Lamb Meets Picasso 253</p> <p>CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN</p> <p>The Canyon Full of Ghosts 261</p> <p>CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT</p> <p>Around the World in 80 Studios 265</p> <p>CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE</p> <p>Pans and Praise: The Critics Look at Lamb 277</p> <p>CHAPTER FORTY</p> <p>Always Further: Lamb Today and Tomorrow 289</p> <p>PART NINE</p> <p>The Epilogue</p> <p>CHAPTER FORTY-ONE</p> <p>When the Saints Go Marchin’ In 299</p> <p>PART TEN</p> <p>The Exit Interview</p> <p>Afterword 307</p> <p>Q&A</p> <p>The Pony at the End of the Rainbow 329</p> <p>ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 341</p> <p>TIMELINE 343</p> <p>SELECTED COLLECTIONS AND</p> <p>EXHIBITION HISTORY 347</p> <p>CONTACT INFORMATION AND GALLERIES 355</p> <p>ABOUT THE AUTHOR 357</p> <p>NOTES 359</p> <p>INDEX 365</p>
<b>Richard Speer</b> (Portland, Oregon), www.richardspeer.com) is an Associated Press Award-winning writer whose essays, reviews, and commentary appear in <i>Newsweek</i>, <i>The Los Angeles Times</i>, <i>ARTnews</i>, <i>Opera News</i>, <i>The Sacramento News & Review</i>, <i>The Oregonian</i>, and other national, regional, and local publications. He is Visual Arts Critic at Portland, Oregon's groundbreaking alternative newspaper, <i>Willamette Week</i>, where his take-no-prisoners reviews have won him vocal admirers ("A hedonist-critic in the tradition of Apollinaire and Cocteau, Speer has a dramatic, Baroque flair to his writing..."—<i>NW Scuttle</i> critic Jeff Jahn) and equally vocal detractors ("...clearly has Oedipal issues and should return to the whorehouse where his inspiration is born..."—<i>Willamette Week</i> Letter to the Editor). Formerly a television news anchor/reporter, Speer worked at CBS, ABC, NBC, and FOX affiliates throughout the United States.  Among the national and international figures he has profiled are opera superstar Luciano Pavarotti, composer Philip Glass, U.S. Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Trent Lott, authors Chuck Palahniuk, Nathaniel Branden, and Barbara Branden, painter David Geiser, and architects E. Fay Jones and James Lambeth.  His groundbreaking monograph on painter Piet Mondrian, <i>The Soul of a Straight Line</i>, was published in the webzine <i>Final Cause</i> and critiqued in "The Aesthetics Symposium" of <i>The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies</i>. He has written about Matt Lamb for <i>ARTnews</i>, the German arts journal <i>Hominum Genus</i>, the Centre-Picasso (Horta, Spain), and the Centre Joan Miró (Mont-roig, Spain). An accomplished public speaker, Speer lectures on aesthetics, journalism, and criticism in academic and popular forums around the world.  He has appeared as a talk radio guest on KRLA Los Angeles, WJR Detroit, WUCF Orlando, KPAM Portland, and other radio stations around the country.

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