Like Art: Glenn O’Brien on Advertising
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (574 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1942607482 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Everybody wants a little luxury in life, whether it’s state-of-the-art high-tops or something large and 24 carat. It’s only human … Luxury is a sign of hope and belief in one’s self,” wrote Glenn O’Brienthe prolific writer, editor, creative director and New York staplein a 1990 article for Artforum magazine. O’Brien’s words have proven decidedly true, as has much of his writing from the Artforum column on advertising he penned from 1984 to 1990.With prescience and panache, O’Brien wrote on such diverse topics as advertising in Japan, the Buy America
(Dan Piepenbring The Paris Review) . O’Brien treats ads as art objects, which is to say he understands that most of them are meaningless, even if their effects on us aren’t
His books include The Style Guy and How to Be a Man. . Glenn O’Brien is an American writerlargely on the subjects of art, music and fashionand editor. He was the first editor of Interview from 1971 to 1974, and was a music critic for the publication in the punk era, with the influential column “Glenn O’Brien’s Beat.&