BOOGIE-WOOGIE: THE SIGNED LIMITED EDITION - Rare Pristine Copy of The Limited Edition: Numbered And Double-Signed by Damien Hirst And Danny Moynihan

Hirst, Damien (Artist/Book Designer) & Moynihan, Danny (Author)

ISBN 10: 0715630210 / ISBN 13: 9780715630211

Published by London, England: Duckworth Literary Entertainment, 2000, 2000

About this Item

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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: BOOGIE-WOOGIE: THE SIGNED LIMITED EDITION - Rare Pristine Copy of The Limited Edition: Numbered And Double-Signed by Damien Hirst And Danny Moynihan
• Publisher: London, England: Duckworth Literary Entertainment, 2000
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0715630210
• ISBN 13: 9780715630211
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author

About this title

Synopsis

Casting a wry and satirical eye over New York's modern art world, this novel paints a subversive picture of the loves and lives of artists, dealers and wannabees in New York's cut-throat art scene.

Review

Danny Moynihan's Boogie-Woogie is the first novel that the New York art world has deserved for some time. As a curator and artist who has worked extensively in both New York and London, Moynihan has had ample opportunity to observe the bitchy, hysterical, pretentious and money-driven art world that he recreates with often hilarious results in Boogie-Woogie.

The book's title comes from Piet Mondrian's famous painting Broadway Boogie-Woogie, an iconic image of abstract expressionism painted in New York in the 1940s. Alfred and Alfreda Rheingold are the proud but eccentric owners of one of Mondrian's last Boogie-Woogie paintings. In sweaty pursuit of the Mondrian is the reptilian, golf-loving art dealer Art Spindle, who prides himself on once having "managed to sell a Picasso atercolour on the 11th green". What unfolds in the manic attempt to land the Mondrian is a dizzying montage of the great and the not so good of New York's art world. Its neurotic, self-seeking cast list includes the predatory tattooed lesbian video-artist Elaine, the vain but failed artist Jo Richard with a penchant for anal sex, and the lecherous stammering collector Bob Macclestone with his "ah, Brancusi, ah, in the, ah, hallway".

Moynihan paints a satirical and often hilarious portrait of the openings, closings and bad repartee of an art world where as one of Spindle's clients tells him, "That's business, Art". Told in the style of Robert Altman's filmShort Cuts and reminiscent of Altman's own send-up of Hollywood life The Player, Boogie-Woogie does at times become too clever for its own good, and the hollowness of its entire cast grates towards the end. Nevertheless, it is a very funny and wry view of an art world gone mad.--Jerry Brotton