{"id":3844,"date":"2013-12-27T18:35:50","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T17:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/?p=3844"},"modified":"2022-11-17T09:22:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T08:22:20","slug":"art-in-novels-an-object-of-beauty-by-steve-martin-actor-and-collector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2013\/12\/27\/art-in-novels-an-object-of-beauty-by-steve-martin-actor-and-collector\/","title":{"rendered":"Art in novels: &#8220;An Object of Beauty&#8221;, by Steve Martin, actor and collector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Object-Of-Beauty-2-692x1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3845\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Object-Of-Beauty-2.jpg\" alt=\"Object-Of-Beauty-2-692x1024\" width=\"692\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a>An Object of Beauty is a novel written by Steve Martin and published in 2010, a few months after another art system based novel \u2013 &#8220;A nightfall&#8221;, by Michael Cunnigham \u2013 came out. It relates the story of Lacey Yeager, a witty, sexy and unscrupulous employee at Sotheby&#8217;s who climbs the art market thanks to a mixture of luck and strong ambition. The New York&#8217;s art scene, from old masters to contemporary art, is very well painted, rich in details and insiders&#8217; point of views, mostly provided by the narrator, a nerdy and romantic art writer called Daniel Franks.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the book remains unresolved. Lacey Yeager comes out like nothing more than a conventional Bret Easton Ellis character, but definitely less eccentric. The art world too, described by the author, appears to be mono-dimensional, with just a bunch of drivers mainly moved by money and speculation. From a respected collector, as Steve Martin is, you would expect a better comprehension of the art truth, instead of a basic description of the art market&#8217;s lies, sometimes too near to Tom Wolf &#8216;s &#8220;The painted word&#8221; (1975), all of them already well known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Object of Beauty is a novel written by Steve Martin and published in 2010, a few months after another art system based novel \u2013 &#8220;A nightfall&#8221;, by Michael Cunnigham [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1793],"tags":[376,924],"class_list":["post-3844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-to-be-discovered","tag-art-in-novels","tag-steve-martin"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}