A brilliant analysis of the socio-political elements of art and how the art establishment tacitly endorses them. An easy read, and helped me appreciate art on a whole other level.

My first impression of his last essay on publicity was that it’s a little dated, then I thought of the facial expression of Balenciaga models and realised how wrong I was. It’s outrageously easy to draw a link from the 1552 painting “The Ambassadors” and any Balenciaga model posing for the camera.

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Have to mention, the formatting of this book is proper bonkers. I assume there was a better edition of this book at some point because this paperback is so bad it actually gets kind of funny. Every example image is an oil painting reprinted in fuzzy black and white and the typeface used is all over the place throughout the whole book.