Taschen | ISBN:3822849391 | File Type: PDF, 298 pages | File size: 40.Mb | Jun. 30th, 2006
Contemporary Art History 1945 : Words from the wise insiders tips on how to navigate the art market like a pro Art is about life the art market is about money Damien Hirst Whether you re an art fan aficionado or collector this completely unique book shod be on your required reading list Like a textbook for a given by all of the world s leading experts Collecting Contemporary is the one and only book to teach you everything you ever wanted to know about the contemporary art market The introduction explains the ABCs of buying art on the primary and secondary markets at auction and at art fairs and gives an overview of the world art scene and its social circles The main body of the book brings together tell all interviews with the biggest players in the global art market the Critic Rimanelli the Dealer Boesky Brunnet Hackert Coles Deitch Fortes Gagosian Gladstone Glimcher Hetzler Lybke errotin Rosen Shave Wirth the Constant Cortez Fletcher Heller Segalot Westreich the Collector Brant Broad Habsburg Joannou Lambert Lehmann Lopez az inat Rothschild Foundation Saatchi the Auction House Expert Cappellazzo de ury Meyer and the Museum Curator Director Dennison Eccles Heiss Lowry eyton Jones Rounding up the book are chapters on the year in art collecting giving a timeline of the most important annual auctions exhibitions fairs etc around the world as well as a glossary of terms every art savvy player shod know The text is illustrated by the work of the hottest artists in today s market including Matthew Barney Jean Michel Basquiat Damien Hirst Mike Kelley Martin Kippenberger Jeff Koons Takashi Murakami Richard Serra Cindy Sherman Andy Warhol Lisa Yuskavage and many more All in all these elements add up to the equivalent of an invaluable and privileged real world collector s education all between the covers of one book The author Adam Lindemann started collecting tribal art as well as works of artists of the 80s before turning to contemporary art which has been his passion for the past several years This book was conceived as a short handbook of information and advice for new collectors but Lindemann s research eventually led him to an international tour of the art world and personal interviews with some of its leading figures The rests are shared with the reader on these pages along with images of over a hundred art works which help define the contemporary art market today
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