MATT LAMB : the art of success -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE THE PRINCE OF PARADOX -- CHAPTER ONE A PORTRAIT OF THE STARVING ARTIST AS TYCOON -- PART TWO THE BACKSTORY -- CHAPTER TWO BUTCHERING SHEEP AND SIPPING TEA -- CHAPTER THREE SOUTH SIDE STORY -- CHAPTER FOUR THE LOVE AFFAIR THAT BEGAN IN THE WOMB -- CHAPTER FIVE FAMILY BUSINESS AND OTHER OXYMORONS -- CHAPTER SIX THE SALES OF A DEATH MAN -- CHAPTER SEVEN DRUNKEN DAYS AND PAPAL KNIGHTS -- PART THREE THE CRISIS -- CHAPTER EIGHT THE FUNERAL DIRECTOR PICKS HIS OWN CASKET -- CHAPTER NINE MISDIAGNOSIS OR MIRACLE? -- PART FOUR THE NEW LIFE -- CHAPTER TEN THE UNDERTAKER'S NEW UNDERTAKING -- CHAPTER ELEVEN THE JEW, THE NUN, THE ARCHITECT, AND THE OLD IRISH BASTARD -- CHAPTER TWELVE LAMB DEBUTS TO RANTS AND RAVES -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN THE WAKE AS COLLAGE -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN POWER PLAYS -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN THE TYCOON TACKLES GANDHI -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN CHAOS, RAGE, AND THE WHITE HEAT OF PASSION -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN FINDING FACES IN THE CLOUDS -- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN THE SPIRITS WHO LIVE IN THE CANVAS -- CHAPTER NINETEEN THE CHARACTERS TAKE THE STAGE -- PART FIVE THE CAREER BLOSSOMS -- CHAPTER TWENTY GETTING HAMMERED -- CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE PAINTING FOR PIERRE CARDIN -- CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO FINDING FASSBENDER -- CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE THE DOYENNE IN LEATHER PANTS -- CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR THE DEALER WITH GLOW-STICK NUNCHUCKS -- PART SIX THE POPE, THE PRINCESS, AND THE GIANT CHILD -- CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE PAINTING FOR THE POPE -- CHAPTER TWENTY- SIX THE SPIRITUALIST TAKES ON THE MALL OF AMERICA -- CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN THE KNIGHT AND THE PRINCESS -- CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT GIANT CHILD -- CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE POLLYANNA MEETS PATTON -- PART SEVEN THE CONTROVERSY -- CHAPTER THIRTY FUCK THE PUCK -- CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE THE STRAIGHTJACKET AS PAINTING SMOCK -- CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO THERE ONCE WAS A GALLERIST FROM NANTUCKET.

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE THE MEDIA SHARKS TEAR IN -- CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR OUTSIDER, OUTSCHMEIDER -- PART EIGHT THE PRESENT TENSE AND FUTURE PERFECT -- CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE THE MAXIMALIST WRESTLES WITH MINIMALISM -- CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX LAMB MEETS PICASSO -- CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN THE CANYON FULL OF GHOSTS -- CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 STUDIOS -- CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE PANS AND PRAISE: THE CRITICS LOOK AT LAMB -- CHAPTER FORTY ALWAYS FURTHER: LAMB TODAY AND TOMORROW -- PART NINE THE EPILOGUE -- CHAPTER FORTY-ONE WHEN THE SAINTS GO MARCHIN' IN -- PART TEN THE EXIT INTERVIEW -- AFTERWORD -- Q&A: THE PONY AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- TIMELINE -- SELECTED COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITION HISTORY -- CONTACT INFORMATION AND GALLERIES -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- NOTES -- INDEX -- SUPPLEMENTAL IMAGES.