Author: Sotheby's (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Sotheby's Preview
Author: Sotheby's (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The Art of the Steal
Author: Christopher MasonPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0425202410
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Art of the Steal tells the story of several larger-than-life figures - the billionaire tycoon Alfred Taubman; the most powerful woman in the art world, Dede Brooks; and the wily British executive Christopher Davidge - who conspired to cheat their clients out of millions of dollars. It offers an unprecedented look inside this secretive, glamorous, gold-plated industry, describing just how Sotheby's and Christie's grew from clubby, aristocratic businesses into slick international corporations. And it shows how the groundwork for the most recent illegal activities was laid decades before the perpetrators were caught by federal prosecutors.
Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne
Author: Claude LalannePublisher: Reed Krakoff/Paul Kasmin/Ben Brown
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Foreword by Adrian Dannatt. Text by Pierre Berge, Peter Marino, Reed Krakoff.
Manuela Alexejew with Thomas Kausch: It's Not about the Money
Author: Manuela AlexejewPublisher: Steidl
ISBN: 9783958298989
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The fascinating life story of collector Manuela Alexejew Berlin-based collector Manuela Alexejew is known for her distinguished art collection, with works by Dix, Piene, Condo and Kusama. This book documents her collection and glamorous life as a former flight attendant and guest of Sophia Loren at Studio 54.
Sotheby's Newsletter
Author: Sotheby Parke Bernet IncPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Claude Monet
Author: Ann TemkinPublisher: The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN: 9780870707742
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
including the destruction of two works in a fire in 1958 - and underscores the resonance of these paintings with the art and artists of the last half-century." --Book Jacket.
Seven Days in the Art World
Author: Sarah ThorntonPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393071057
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A fly-on-the-wall account of the smart and strange subcultures that make, trade, curate, collect, and hype contemporary art. The art market has been booming. Museum attendance is surging. More people than ever call themselves artists. Contemporary art has become a mass entertainment, a luxury good, a job description, and, for some, a kind of alternative religion. In a series of beautifully paced narratives, Sarah Thornton investigates the drama of a Christie's auction, the workings in Takashi Murakami's studios, the elite at the Basel Art Fair, the eccentricities of Artforum magazine, the competition behind an important art prize, life in a notorious art-school seminar, and the wonderland of the Venice Biennale. She reveals the new dynamics of creativity, taste, status, money, and the search for meaning in life. A judicious and juicy account of the institutions that have the power to shape art history, based on hundreds of interviews with high-profile players, Thornton's entertaining ethnography will change the way you look at contemporary culture.
The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye
Author: Raoul LefèvrePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Troy (Extinct city)
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Andy Warhol
Author: Donna M. De SalvoPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300236980
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
A unique 360‐degree view of an incomparable 20th-century American artist One of the most emulated and significant figures in modern art, Andy Warhol (1928-1987) rose to fame in the 1960s with his iconic Pop pieces. Warhol expanded the boundaries by which art is defined and created groundbreaking work in a diverse array of media that includes paintings, sculptures, prints, photographs, films, and installations. This ambitious book is the first to examine Warhol's work in its entirety. It builds on a wealth of new research and materials that have come to light in recent decades and offers a rare and much-needed comprehensive look at the full scope of Warhol's production--from his commercial illustrations of the 1950s through his monumental paintings of the 1980s. Donna De Salvo explores how Warhol's work engages with notions of public and private, the redefinition of media, and the role of abstraction, while a series of incisive and eye-opening essays by eminent scholars and contemporary artists touch on a broad range of topics, such as Warhol's response to the AIDS epidemic, his international influence, and how his work relates to constructs of self-image seen in social media today.
Objects of Desire
Author: Thatcher FreundPublisher: Penguin Mass Market
ISBN: 9780140244809
Category : Furniture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Freund explores the high-stakes world of American antiques collecting. He focuses on three of the most highly valued pieces at the prestigious 1991 Americana Week in New York. Tracing their histories and showing how they came to be at the heart of the antiques market, Freund also shares the fascinating history of how the world of antiques evolved.