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Synopsis
Like The Player's hilariously poker-faced dissection of Hollywood, Boogie-Woogie's lurid quick cuts uncover of the tenderest portions of the '90's New York art world's underbelly
Elaine Yoon, a tattooed, pierced, Chinese-Californian lesbian, obsessively seduces straight women, and films video shorts of her sexual conquests. Jo Richards, an intellectually challenged installation artist grappling with the idea of peripheral vision, knows the whereabouts of Mondrian's last painting. Art Spindle, a cravat-wearing, reptilian art dealer, desperately wants to sell the Mondrian, when he isn't sleeping with Jean Maclestone, collector and art-hag, the vain wife of stuttering über-collector Bob Maclestone.
This cast of characters dance through incestuous working relationships, run-ins with incompetent gallery owners, and the lure of manipulative art dealers. Danny Moynihan's deliciously satirical sexual deviants, attention seekers, and would-be murderers ring true in this sophisticated, sharply observed, darkly humorous novel.
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About the Author
Danny Moynihan has had first-hand experience of the art world curating shows, managing galleries, and exhibiting his own work. He lives in London. This is his first novel.
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The hip, trendy New York art scene provides the backdrop for Moynihan's satiric debut novel, a montage-like collection of scenes in which the author tries to mimic structurally the energy of the Mondrian masterpiece that links the fates of his art world characters. Moynihan introduces his wacky crew in rapid-fire succession. At the top of the heap is Art Spindle, a powerful gallery owner who shows the work of established artist Jo Richards and fights to extract money from rich patrons like the elderly Rhinegolds. Lower down on the totem pole are up-and-coming agent Beth Freemantle, who eventually opens her own gallery, and intriguing young artist Elaine Yoon-Jung Yi, a lesbian who seduces and stalks her paramours and then turns her sexual escapades into video pieces. What comes after the introductions is a nonstop series of scenes and snippets from the lives of the various characters, covering deals, conversations and sexual encounters that wander into some kinky terrain. The author, a curator and art dealer, clearly knows the world his characters inhabit, and he sketches some convincing scenes, though his prose is occasionally breathy and awkward. The lack of narrative structure presents some problems in its own rightAthe early chapters of the novel are particularly jarring and scattershot, and the lack of a story line makes the book an uneven read. The result is a novel that works as satire, but fails to quite cohere as fiction. Art world denizens will appreciate the gossipy slant, but the tale has little to offer a more general audience. (Feb.)
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- PublisherDuck Editions
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0715630210
- ISBN 13 9780715630211
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
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Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition 1/500 Deluxe. 254pp. Cover Art by Damien Hirst. "Boogie-Woogie" is British author Danny Moynihan's first novel - a witty, thinly veiled satire skewering the avarice and mores of the 1990s art scene that was adapted as the scabrous 2009 feature film directed by Duncan Ward. A brand new, pristine example from the deluxe edition limited to five hundred copies NUMBERED (264/500) AND SIGNED "Danny Moynihan" in ink on the title page alongside the Duck Editions rubber stamp as well as BOLDLY SIGNED "Damien Hirst" in black ink on the rear of the dust jacket, as issued. Signed by the Author and the Artist. Seller Inventory # 021844
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 254 pages. Published in 2000. The author's breakthrough debut novel. Landmark collaborative effort between Danny Moynihan and Damien Hirst. Now considered a contemporary art and literary classic. Limited Edition of 500 numbered and signed copies. Precedes and should not be confused with the regular trade edition. Published as a hardcover original in the United Kingdom only. There is NO American Edition. The Limited Edition is now rare. One of the most stunningly beautiful books ever published: Regular-sized volume format. Red cloth boards with gilt titles on spine, as issued. Text by Danny Moynihan. Original art by Damien Hirst. Hirst's art is in the form of the wraparound DJ cover, a hectic collage that consists of and alludes to the art of various contemporary artists. He gives credit to all of them: Sarah Lucas, Marc Quinn, Jeff Koons, Michael Joo, Matthew Collishaw, and himself. With Damien Hirst's supervision, one of his most fully realized (and financially accessible) creations underwent two further transformations: The photograph of Hirst's original art was taken by Mike Parsons while the subsequent digital manipulation was done by Steve Warner. Both the title and the art are an unmistakable homage to Piet Mondrian's "Broadway Boogie-Woogie". Red satin ribbon marker. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Danny Moynihan's and Damien Hirst's "Boogie-Woogie". The book-as-beautiful object. The main attraction of the Limited Edition is Damien Hirst's DJ art. Discovered by Charles Saatchi (who bought his entire debut exhibition), Damien Hirst is not only the contemporary British art world's belated response to Andy Warhol, he is our Warhol, the most famous (and most expensive) artist of our time. Moynihan holds his own: "Sharp and wickedly sexy, 'Boogie-Woogie' is the look at the contemporary art world we've all been waiting for. It will be required reading in twenty years. In the meantime, read it and laugh. Satire doesn't come any more brilliant than this" (Cressida Connolly). No, it doesn't, and the duo deserves our lasting gratitude for bursting the bubble of the New York art scene's powers-that-be. An absolute "must-have" title for Damien Hirst and Danny Moynihan collectors. This is a copy of the Signed Limited Edition of 500 numbered and signed copies, indicated/numbered as such on the Front Limitation Page. It is very prominently and beautifully numbered and signed in black ink-pen by Danny Moynihan. The "Limited Edition" Duck Seal is stamped directly on the page itself, not a tipped-in page. In addition, the Limited Edition is spectacularly signed in black ink-pen on the DJ itself by Damien Hirst, thereby turning it into an original art piece. This title is a contemporary Artist Book classic. This is one of few copies of the Signed Limited Edition still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A rare signed copy thus. Two of the most brilliant artists of our time. A fine collectible copy. ISBN 0715630210. Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 12533
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