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Trophy Lives is a short book, really an essay in two parts. In the first, Snow talks about the celebrity as muse and representations of celebrity in art; in the second, she makes the case for the celebrity as art. I love Snow’s writing, she constructs perfect sentences and expresses ideas very incisively, so I really enjoyed reading this, even if it is a little insubstantial as a book. The idea that a celebrity’s image and physical appearance (including the ways in which it might have been altered by plastic surgeons) might constitute ‘a bona fide work of art�, while obviously interesting, warrants a deeper dive. The argument is easy � it makes perfect sense to describe a celebrity’s projected image as performance art; the implications are thornier. Snow does talk about the relationship between person(a)-as-art and notions of conventional beauty, of course, but I think there’s much more to say. Happily, during the course of reading this I discovered that Snow has a full-length book about celebrity and femininity � It’s Terrible the Things I Have to Do to Be Me � coming out in July; straight onto my wishlist.