Art market and the web

In 2008, E-literature soared with the launch of the Sony Reader, youtube brims with clips from musicals and paintings sell fast through the web.

Sites like 55 Max and The Real Art Company are cropping up and the blogging revolution discusses paintings. Among my iPod generation, if an artist doesn’t feature on a website, do they exist?

The art market seems the only safe bet for investors right now. Traditionally, in difficult economic climates, the middling art world struggles while the high and low ends thrive. The very same day that Lehman brothers collapsed and the American financial markets tumbled, Russians were blowing their billions on diamond cabinets and gold butterfly paintings. I wonder if the oligarchs actually viewed their purchases first – do they even care? I can only hope that they, at least, caught a glimpse online.
Is the internet a help or a hindrance to the art world? Traditionalists abhor that we buy paintings without seeing them in the flesh. Will Ramsay, founder of Will’s Art Warehouse and the Affordable Art Fair (23-26 October) says, “Buying art is touchy feely. You need it to be 3-dimensional and in the right light. You can’t get that on a screen.”

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Different ways to novelling

KathyAcker's experience working in film, graphics and body-art gave her a distinctly non-literary approach to writing.

Her novels use techniques taken from the visual arts, borrowing heavily from the modernist armoury as the narrative is disturbed with drawings, poems, collage and factual material. An unashamed plagiarist, Acker was content to cut and paste entire sections from others' work, not least Jean Genet, who ends up becoming a central character in Blood and Guts.

For Michael Bracewell she "presented herself as part rebel bohemian avant-gardiste, part NYC downtown punk, and part venerable literary grande dame." For Robert Lort, she was "always out on her own, a strange girl thrown towards the threshold of language and thought." A decade after her untimely death from cancer in 1997 we can see her influence in the work of a number of younger - and noticeably, male - writers, like Salvador Plascencia, Travis Jeppesen and Noah Cicero.
Reviewed by even the most august outlets - something unimaginable for a comparable author working today - Acker was a genuine starlet of 1980s literary culture. (A.Stevens)

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