Matt Lamb: The Art of Success
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RICHARD SPEER is an Associated Press Award–winning writer whose essays and reviews have appeared in Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, ARTnews, Opera News, and other publications. He is Visual Arts Critic at Portland, Oregon's groundbreaking alternative newspaper, Willamette Week. Formerly a television news anchor/reporter, Speer has worked at CBS, ABC, NBC, and FOX affiliates throughout the United States. Among the national and international figures he has profiled are opera superstar Luciano Pavarotti, composer Philip Glass, and architects E. Fay Jones and James Lambeth. An accomplished public speaker, Speer lectures on aesthetics, criticism, and popular culture in academic and popular forums around the world.

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PART I: THE PRINCE OF PARADOX.

Chapter 1. A Portrait of the Starving Artist as Tycoon.

PART II: THE BACKSTORY.

Chapter 2. Butchering Sheep and Sipping Tea.

Chapter 3. South Side Story.

Chapter 4. The Love Affair that Began in the Womb.

Chapter 5. Family Business and other Oxymorons.

Chapter 6. The Sales of a Death Man.

Chapter 7. Drunken Days and Papal Knights.

PARTB III: THE CRISIS.

Chapter 8. The Funeral Director Picks His Own Casket.

Chapter 9. Misdiagnosis or Miracle?

PART IV: THE NEW LIFE.

Chapter 10. The Undertaker’s New Undertaking.

Chapter 11. The Jew, the Nun, the Architect, and the Old Irish Bastard.

Chapter 12. Lamb Debuts to Rants and Raves.

Chapter 13. The Wake as Collage.

Chapter 14. Power Plays.

Chapter 15. The Tycoon Tackles Gandhi.

Chapter 16. Chaos, Rage, and the White Heat of Passion.

Chapter 17. Finding Faces in the Clouds.

Chapter 18. The Spirits Who Live in the Canvas.

Chapter 19. The Characters Take the Stage.

PART V: THE CAREER BLOSSOMS.

Chapter 20.  Getting Hammered.

Chapter 21. Painting for Pierre Cardin.

Chapter 22. Finding Fassbender.

Chapter 23. The Doyenne in Leather Pants.

Chapter 24. The Dealer with Glow-stick Nunchucks.

PART VI: THE POPE, THE PRINCESS, AND THE GIANT CHILD.

Chapter 25. Painting for the Pope.

Chapter 26. The Spiritualist Takes on the Mall of America.

Chapter 27. The Knight and the Princess.

Chapter 28. Giant Child.

Chapter 29. Pollyanna Meets Patton.

PART VII: THE CONTROVERSY.

Chapter 30. Fuck the Puck.

Chapter 31. The Straightjacket as Painting Smock.

Chapter 32. There Once was a Gallerist from Nantucket.

Chapter 33. The Media Sharks Tear In.

Chapter 34. Outsider, Outschmeider.

PART VIII:  THE PRESENT TENSE AND FUTURE PERFECT.

Chapter 35. Herr Lamb.

Chapter 36. The Maximalist Wrestles with Minimalism.

Chapter 37. Lamb Meets Picasso.

Chapter 38. The Canyon Full of Ghosts.

Chapter 39. Around the World in 80 Studios.

Chaper 40. Pans and Praise:  The Critics Look at Lamb.

Chapter 41. Always Further:  Lamb Today and Tomorrow.

PART IX: THE EPILOGUE.

Chapter 42. When the Saints Go Marchin’ In.

PART X: THE EXIT INTERVIEW.

Chapter 43. The Pony at the End of the Rainbow.

Acknowledgements.

Timeline.

Selected Collections and Exhibition History.

Contact Information and Galleries.

About the Author.

Notes.

Index.

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