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3.98 AVERAGE
3.98 AVERAGE
emotional
medium-paced
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
emotional
inspiring
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
girl the general public could not generate art like that with AI in the spring of 2011 I remember I was there
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
loved. I'm an art history girly down to my bones. and I ate this up and left no crumbs. SUPER niche though and super unfulfilling romance arcs for the most part. But I loved how protagonist rotated every chapter. I loved the competitive and critical air of art at the college level and then pushing even further to the professional level in NYC. ugh. phenomenal. I want to be them. OH to be talented. If you're into art history, this gives you so much to think about. If you're not, this is going to be less interesting surely. Really enjoyed the queer romance.
3.5 stars. artists are unbelievably insufferable lmfao.
louisa was a caricature of someone from southern louisiana. preston was my favorite character by far which surprised me. his hypocritical anarchism was so entertaining. i loved richard’s character arc. louisa and karina will never see each other again. louisa will marry that boy that goes to ULL and she’ll be an art teacher in breaux bridge just like her mom even though that’s her worst nightmare. karina felt like the flattest character to me. i don’t have much to say about her
i really enjoyed the discussion of the ethics of art, the moral responsibility of an artist, and what the true delineation of art is. i wish i had read this book before that art philosophy class i took my senior year of college.
louisa was a caricature of someone from southern louisiana. preston was my favorite character by far which surprised me. his hypocritical anarchism was so entertaining. i loved richard’s character arc. louisa and karina will never see each other again. louisa will marry that boy that goes to ULL and she’ll be an art teacher in breaux bridge just like her mom even though that’s her worst nightmare. karina felt like the flattest character to me. i don’t have much to say about her
i really enjoyed the discussion of the ethics of art, the moral responsibility of an artist, and what the true delineation of art is. i wish i had read this book before that art philosophy class i took my senior year of college.
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Sirens and Muses tells the story of four people in the elite art world in 2011. Grappling with the recession, art industry, and politics in art. I found this book very informative as someone not in the art world and certainly not a part of it in 2011 during the Occupy Wall Street movement. I thought the discussions of the politics in art told through the four characters—a washed out former political artist, the prodigal daughter of rich art collectors, a middle-class student out of her depth, and a rich, new-age political activist on the AI art train.
I think the Angress had a lot of good ideas and balancing the different ideologies and backstories of the characters made for an interesting look at the 1%. There's the cutthroat world of art students trying to make it, to be recognized by the collectors who matter. The introduction of the internet changing the art world in new ways. The class disparity between artists. But in some ways, I think she was trying to handle too much and lost sight of some other elements of her novel. It took me until almost the end to actually care about her characters and even then they felt slightly flat.
In the end, for all this book tried to say it didn't work. The relationship between Louisa and Karina was kind of boring, honestly. Maybe I just expected more. I hated Preston and Robert for the majority of the book but liked that the author made complex characters that were sympathetic without taking away from their asshole-ery.
I think the Angress had a lot of good ideas and balancing the different ideologies and backstories of the characters made for an interesting look at the 1%. There's the cutthroat world of art students trying to make it, to be recognized by the collectors who matter. The introduction of the internet changing the art world in new ways. The class disparity between artists. But in some ways, I think she was trying to handle too much and lost sight of some other elements of her novel. It took me until almost the end to actually care about her characters and even then they felt slightly flat.
In the end, for all this book tried to say it didn't work. The relationship between Louisa and Karina was kind of boring, honestly. Maybe I just expected more. I hated Preston and Robert for the majority of the book but liked that the author made complex characters that were sympathetic without taking away from their asshole-ery.
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes