Book description
Celebrated musician and artist Bill Drummond turns his attention to the
world of modern art. Several years ago, he bought a photograph by the
artist Richard Long for ,000. After owning it for some time, he decided
to cut it up into 20,000 individual pieces, and then sell them off at a
dollar a piece. By the time ,000 is published in March 2010, Drummond
will have sold all 20,000 pieces, and will announce at the Spring 2010
Affordable Art Fair how his relationship to the work of Richard Long,
and to the whole canon of modern art, has been shaped by this process.
This book tells the whole story of Drummond's relationship with modern
art in a typically fascinating and discursive way. In his numerous
musical incarnations - as manager of Echo & The Bunnymen, as
co-founder of the multi-million-selling band The KLF etc - Drummond has
combined global success with a fiercely independent slant. As an artist
his work, over the past thirty years, has examined the cultural
landscape through a diverse array of forms. Bill Drumond lives in
London.
