{"id":9907,"date":"2011-01-11T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=9907"},"modified":"2010-12-28T13:00:02","modified_gmt":"2010-12-28T19:00:02","slug":"an-object-of-beauty-by-steve-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/an-object-of-beauty-by-steve-martin\/","title":{"rendered":"An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many of you know Steve Martin as a comedian and as an actor, but he is also a best-selling author of both children’s books\u00a0and adult fiction.\u00a0 His newest offering is a fictionalized glimpse into the New York art world, An Object of Beauty<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

An avid art collector himself, Martin traces the rise and eventual fall of a young woman, Lacey Yeager, whose ambition and drive to be at the\u00a0pinnicle of the art world knows no boundaries.\u00a0 Her tale begins when, right out of college, she accepts a position with Sotheby’s auction house.\u00a0 Her position is at the bottom of art world ladder (her office\u00a0is literally in the basement)\u00a0but she quickly learns what, and more importantly, who you need to know – but it comes at a high price.<\/p>\n

Lacey’s eventual fall from grace is explained in full detail at the end of the book (after the author only gives the reader bits and pieces throughout) and her final\u00a0eviction from the art world is swift and severe – which make for a compelling and fascinating look into\u00a0the world of million dollar artwork.<\/p>\n

The author includes color photographs of many of the works of art mentioned in the book – it is a nice touch!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many of you know Steve Martin as a comedian and as an actor, but he is also a best-selling author of both children’s books\u00a0and adult fiction.\u00a0 His newest offering is a fictionalized glimpse into the New York art world, An Object of Beauty. An avid art collector himself, Martin traces[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[885,1478,1477,519],"class_list":["post-9907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks","tag-art","tag-fine-art","tag-literary-fiction","tag-new-york-city"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-2zN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9907"}],"version-history":[{"count":54,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10078,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9907\/revisions\/10078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}