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Laddar... Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Artav Michael Shnayerson
   Ingen/inga Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken.  lemontwist | Mar 21, 2021 |   For the general reader interested in the economics of art, I would recommend instead "The $12 Million Stuffed Shark," by Don Thompson, or, perhaps, "Seven Days in the Art World," by Sarah Thornton. This filled in some gaps in my knowledge, particularly of Gagosian and other mega-dealers, but was very flat. (  ) breic | Jun 30, 2019 | inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
The contemporary art market is an international juggernaut, throwing off multimillion-dollar deals as wealthy buyers move from fair to fair, auction to auction, party to glittering party. But none of it would happen without the dealers-the tastemakers who back emerging artists and steer them to success, often to see them picked off by a rival. Dealers operate within a private world of handshake agreements, negotiating for the highest commissions. Michael Shnayerson, a longtime contributing editor to Vanity Fair, writes the first ever definitive history of their activities. He has spoken to all of today's so-called mega dealers-Larry Gagosian, David Zwirner, Arne and Marc Glimcher, and Iwan Wirth-along with dozens of other dealers-from Irving Blum to Gavin Brown-who worked with the greatest artists of their times: Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Cy Twombly, and more. This kaleidoscopic history begins in the mid-1940s in genteel poverty with a scattering of galleries in midtown Manhattan, takes us through the ramshackle 1950s studios of Coenties Slip, the hipster locations in SoHo and Chelsea, London's Bond Street, and across the terraces of Art Basel until today. Now, dealers and auctioneers are seeking the first billion-dollar painting. It hasn't happened yet, but they are confident they can push the price there soon. -- inside jacket. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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This book is an interesting, albeit exhaustive, look at the inner world of contemporary art. Dealers, buyers, artists, the whole nine yards. There are definitely a lot of names to keep up with, and a lot of the "art" made me roll my eyes and wish I could make millions of dollars by throwing garbage into a room (hey... now that I think about it... my kitchen is totally an art gallery right now!)...
What I would have liked to know about more is about how many artists "make it" vs. those that don't, and more of a look at those who don't. That was maybe given two or three sentences in the 400 page book. Obviously this book was going to be more about the successful artists but I felt the lopsided approach to just feel misleading.
Honestly, I found a lot of the conspicuous consumption in this book to be nauseating. I'm not sure if the author wrote about it as something to aspire to or as a way to expose the subtle interplay of art for art's sake or art for money... but I don't think it came across in any really meaningful way.
I think this book would have been a lot more awesome as a criticism, but instead is just a narrative. Not that it isn't interesting, it just didn't really live up to its potential. (