DAMIEN HIRST

Damien Hirst – *On the Way to Work* (2001) Hardcover Book

The photographs are of my own copy. The one for sale is sealed.

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Faber and Faber; 1st edition (5 Nov 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0571202578
• ISBN-13: 978-0571202577
• Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 18.4 x 3.4 cm

DESCRIPTION

'I want it to be revealing. I'll talk about anything you like. I want it to be truthful. Let's do it. There is no off-limits. I'm afraid of nothing.'

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Immediately recognised as a young artist with a brilliant, sordid and uncompromising imagination, Damien Hirst is the most celebrated artist Britain has produced for generations. The undisputed leader and originator of the dominant movement in contemporary art on both sides of the Atlantic, he is now so ingrained in the public consciousness that even those with only a passing interest in art are familiar with his notorious shark and pickled sheep.

Gordon Burn met Hirst for the first time in the early 1990s. Both admirers of David Sylvester's interviews with Francis Bacon and Jan Wenner's interviews with John Lennon, there was always an unspoken understanding between them that they would do something similar when the time was right. The resulting conversations in On the Way to Work are electrifyingly candid. True to the undertaking Hirst gave Burn, there is no off-limits: here are Hirst's thoughts on celebrity, money, art, alcohol, sex, death, the North of England, class, crime and cocaine; his views on Marco Pierre White, Charles Saatchi, David Bowie, Gilbert and George and Lucian Freud. More than any other individual, Damien Hirst's art and life came to define the nineties. Like the generation Hirst has come to represent, On the Way to Work is brave, unpredictable, scabrously funny and corrosively intelligent. It is also a how-to guide to becoming the most famous artist in the world.

DAMIEN HIRST

Born in 1965 in Leeds, Damien Hirst attended Goldsmith's College in London and in the late 1980s organized exhibitions of work by young artists, which reignited the British art scene. Museums and galleries around the world have since collected his paintings, sculptures and installations. In 1994 Hirst received the DAAD fellowship in Berlin, and in 1995 he won the Tate Gallery's prestigious Turner Prize, for which he was also nominated in 1992. In 1996 he wrote and directed a short film, Hanging Around. He lives in Devon, England, with his partner Maia Norman and sons Connor and Cassius.

GORDON BURN (1948-2009)

Gordon Burn, who died at the age of 61, was the author of four novels including the Whitbread First Novel Prize-winning Alma Cogan and, most recently, Born Yesterday, as well as many works of non-fiction, including Happy Like Murderers and On the Way to Work with Damien Hirst.

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