Book

our book POOR ARTISTS comes out on october 3rd!

UK preorders here COMES OUT OCTOBER 3RD you can pre-order it
US pre-orders here
Australia here
if you’re in the UK and you’d prefer to pre-order from an indie bookstore try this one

WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE:

our BOOK COVER which has the title POOR ARTISTS on a bright pink background with an abstract digital painting of a lemon

WHAT THE BOOK IS ABOUT:

‘A moving, eye-opening journey through the world of contemporary art from one of the most innovative voices in the field. At a moment in which working as a professional artist is an increasingly unattainable luxury, art criticism duo The White Pube investigate why so many artists try anyway.

Poor Artists follows aspiring artist Quest Talukdar as she embarks on a surreal journey into the creative industry, where she must decide whether she cares more about success or staying true to herself. Featuring dialogue from anonymous interviews with real people who have all had to ask themselves the same question – including a Turner Prize winner or two, a recluse, a Venice Biennale fraudster, a communist messiah, a ghost, and a literal knight – The White Pube tell the story of art like never before.

Labelled “the Diet Prada of the art world” by British Vogue, in Poor Artists writers Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad ridicule a contemporary art world that has turned art into artworks, art schools into art universities, and creative expression into cut-throat competition.'

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT THE BOOK:

Legacy Russell said it is ‘an indispensible read’! Nathalie Olah said ‘this is a landmark for art writing’! Travis Alabanza said ‘I finished the book overwhelmingly grateful that it exists’! and Daisy Hildyard said ‘This book might change the way you look at art’ woooooo

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DID YOU KNOW that all pre-orders between now and the book’s release on october 3rd count towards its sales in the first week? that’s how so many internet-based writers end up on bestseller lists because they have a pre-existing audience who have already ordered the boooook come on that would be so funnY

here’s a confusing playlist that will make sense once you’ve read the book: