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The Supermodel and the Brillo Box: Back Stories and Peculiar Economics from the World of Contemporary Art
by Thompson, Donald N
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1137279087
- ISBN 13
- 9781137279088
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About This Item
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 282 pages, [8] pages of plates, colour illustrations; 25 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. CONTENTS: Stephanie; The colors of contemporary art. The world of contemporary art; The art market crash of '08; What jobs do we hire art for?; Back story; Authenticating Warhol; Collecting and investing. Mugrabi, Saatchi, Sandretto, and the Vogels; Contemporary art as an asset class; The contemporary artists. Cattelan, Murakami, and Ai; Damien Hirst, Artist and marketer; Artists lauded, artists disdained; Jacob Kassay's wild price ride; The auction houses. Behind the gavel; Christie's Sotheby's, and their competitors; The scream; The opaque side of auctions; The art dealers. Gagosian and the evolution of the u ber dealer; The artful dealer; When auction houses and dealers collide; Changing markets. Abu Dhabi and Qatar; China is number two; The Estella collection; The market as medium. Art fairs; The end game: click on a Warhol.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Supermodel and the Brillo Box: Back Stories and Peculiar Economics from the World of Contemporary Art
- Author
- Thompson, Donald N
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 1137279087
- ISBN 13
- 9781137279088
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2014
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; Art Market; American / 7. Contemporary, 2000-; European / 9. Contemporary;
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