Author : Sotheby's (Firm)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X030212695
Sotheby's Preview
Sotheby's (Firm)
Sotheby S Preview
Sotheby S Preview Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Sotheby S Preview book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Sotheby's Preview
Sotheby's (Firm)
Author : Sotheby's (Firm)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X030230594
Sotheby's Preview by Sotheby's (Firm) Pdf
Sotheby's Newsletter
Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc
Author : Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Art
ISBN : MINN:31951D006748382
Sotheby's Newsletter by Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc Pdf
The Orange Balloon Dog
Don Thompson
Author : Don Thompson
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781771621533
The Orange Balloon Dog by Don Thompson Pdf
Within forty-eight hours in the fall of 2014, buyers in the Sotheby’s and Christie’s New York auction houses spent $1.7 billion on contemporary art. Non-taxed freeport warehouses around the globe are stacked with art held for speculation. One of Jeff Koons’ five chromium-plated stainless steel balloon dogs sold for 50 percent more at auction than the previous record for any living artist. A painting by Christopher Wool, featuring four lines from a Francis Ford Coppola movie stencilled in black on a white background, sold for $28 million. In The Orange Balloon Dog, economist and bestselling author Don Thompson cites these and other fascinating examples to explore the sometimes baffling activities of the high-end contemporary art market. He examines what is at play in the exchange of vast amounts of money and what nudges buyers, even on the subconscious level, to imbue a creation with such high commercial value. Thompson analyzes the behaviours of buyers and sellers and delves into the competitions that define and alter the value of art in today’s international market, from New York to London, Singapore to Beijing. Take heed if your millions are tied up in stainless steel balloon dogs—Thompson also warns of a looming bust of the contemporary art price balloon.
Holding Up a Mirror
Anne Glyn-Jones
Author : Anne Glyn-Jones
Publisher : Imprint Academic
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0907845606
Holding Up a Mirror by Anne Glyn-Jones Pdf
The good news is: that faith in material goods really does bring prosperity to society. The bad news is: that self-same commitment to material things leads inexorably to the destruction of the civilizations it builds. Using theatre as a measure society's health, this book shows that Ancient Greece and Rome, Mediaeval Christendom and our own contemporary society all follow the same pattern: prosperity thrives on the conviction that the material world alone constitutes true 'reality'; but that very conviction leads to a rejection of the supernatural, undermines absolute moral standards, and leads to cultural and social disintegration.
Art Information and the Internet
Lois Swan Jones
Author : Lois Swan Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135933388
Art Information and the Internet by Lois Swan Jones Pdf
In the first book of its kind, art information expert Lois Swan Jones discusses how to locate visual and textual information on the Internet and how to evaluate and supplement that information with material from other formats--print sources, CD-ROMS, documentary videos, and microfiche sets--to produce excellent research results. The book is divided into three sections: Basic Information Formats; Types of Websites and How to Find Them; and How to Use Web Information. Jones discusses the strengths and limitations of Websites; scholarly and basic information resources are noted; and search strategies for finding pertinent Websites are included. Art Information and the Internet also discusses research methodology for studying art-historical styles, artists working in various media, individual works of art, and non-Western cultures--as well as art education, writing about art, problems of copyright, and issues concerning the buying and selling of art. This title will be periodically updated.
Country Life
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Country life
ISBN : IND:30000088356054
Country Life by Anonim Pdf
Painter in a Savage Land
Miles Harvey
Author : Miles Harvey
Publisher : Random House
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781588367099
Painter in a Savage Land by Miles Harvey Pdf
In this vibrantly told, meticulously researched book, Miles Harvey reveals one of the most fascinating and overlooked lives in American history. Like The Island of Lost Maps, his bestselling book about a legendary map thief, Painter in a Savage Land is a compelling search into the mysteries of the past. This is the thrilling story of Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, the first European artist to journey to what is now the continental United States with the express purpose of recording its wonders in pencil and paint. Le Moyne’s images, which survive today in a series of spectacular engravings, provide a rare glimpse of Native American life at the pivotal time of first contact with the Europeans–most of whom arrived with the preconceived notion that the New World was an almost mythical place in which anything was possible.
The Supermodel and the Brillo Box
Don Thompson
Author : Don Thompson
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781137464132
The Supermodel and the Brillo Box by Don Thompson Pdf
Acquiring contemporary art is about passion and lust, but it is also about branding, about the back story that comes with the art, about the relationship of money and status, and, sometimes, about celebrity. The Supermodel and the Brillo Box follows Don Thompson's 2008 bestseller The $12 Million Stuffed Shark and offers a further journey of discovery into what the Crash of 2008 did to the art market and the changing methods that the major auction houses and dealerships have implemented since then. It describes what happened to that market after the economic implosion following the collapse of Lehman Brothers and offers insights and art-world tales from dealers, auction houses, and former executives of each, from New York and London to Abu Dhabi and Beijing. It begins with the story of a wax, trophy-style, nude upper-body sculpture of supermodel Stephanie Seymour by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, which sold for $2.4 million to New York über-collector and private dealer Jose Mugrabi, and recounts the story of a wooden Brillo box that sold for $722,500. The Supermodel and the Brillo Box looks at the increasing dominance of Christie's, Sotheby's, and a few über dealers; the hundreds of millions of new museums coming up in cities like Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Beijing; the growing importance of the digital art world; and the shrinking role of the mainstream gallery.
Glass of the Roman World
Justine Bayley,Ian Freestone,Caroline Jackson
Author : Justine Bayley,Ian Freestone,Caroline Jackson
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782977773
Glass of the Roman World by Justine Bayley,Ian Freestone,Caroline Jackson Pdf
Glass of the Roman World illustrates the arrival of new cultural systems, mechanisms of trade and an expanded economic base in the early 1st millennium AD which, in combination, allowed the further development of the existing glass industry. Glass became something which encompassed more than simply a novel and highly decorative material. Glass production grew and its consumption increased until it was assimilated into all levels of society, used for display and luxury items but equally for utilitarian containers, windows and even tools. These 18 papers by renowned international scholars include studies of glass from Europe and the Near East. The authors write on a variety of topics where their work is at the forefront of new approaches to the subject. They both extend and consolidate aspects of our understanding of how glass was produced, traded and used throughout the Empire and the wider world drawing on chronology, typology, patterns of distribution, and other methodologies, including the incorporation of new scientific methods. Though focusing on a single material the papers are firmly based in its archaeological context in the wider economy of the Roman world, and consider glass as part of a complex material culture controlled by the expansion and contraction of the Empire. The volume is presented in honor of Jenny Price, a foremost scholar of Roman glass.
Superhobby Investing
Peter Temple
Author : Peter Temple
Publisher : Harriman House Limited
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Antiques as an investment
ISBN : 1897597339
Superhobby Investing by Peter Temple Pdf
What is 'superhobby investing'?Superhobby Investing is at the intersection of investing, collecting and other serious hobbies. It's about examining how you can ratchet up a hobby or a collecting passion into an investment option.If you are a stock market investor, this book will show how you can use the tangible assets that are normally part and parcel of collecting as a means of diversifying your portfolio. Or maybe you already own, or have inherited, some superhobby assets - a stamp collection or a set of first editions, say - but never thought of them as potential investments.Using this book, you can find out how to assess their value and how to convert them into a durable and profitable portfolio. This book shows you why developing one or more superhobbies can be a good idea, and looks at various forms this tangible asset investing can take.In each case the book explains how the markets operate, what the risks are, what returns can be expected, and what knowledge and skills are required. Each asset profile includes: - The history of investment in the asset- The basic characteristics and features of the market- The examination of long term returns, with detailed figures- The tax angles (if applicable)- The major issues- How to buy and sell, including major dealers and auctioneers- Sources of information
Summary Catalogue of European Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum
Gillian Wilson,Catherine Hess
Author : Gillian Wilson,Catherine Hess
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002-03-07
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780892366323
Summary Catalogue of European Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum by Gillian Wilson,Catherine Hess Pdf
J. Paul Getty had a passion for the exquisitely made furniture and decorative objects of eighteenth-century France, which he began collecting in the 1930s. Gillian Wilson, curator of decorative arts since 1971, has broadened and strengthened the collection, adding Boulle furniture, mounted oriental porcelain, tapestries, clocks, ceramics, and more. In the 1980s and 1990s the Museum continued to enlarge its decorative arts holdings, creating a European sculpture department in 1984 and adding glass, maiolica, goldsmiths’ work, pietre dure, and furniture from Italy and Northern Europe. This book is a revised and expanded edition of Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum (1993). In addition to more than forty recent acquisitions—among these four wall sconces from Versailles that once belonged to Marie Antoinette and an elaborate upholstered bed from the collection of Karl Lagerfeld—it includes the results of years of research. Designed for scholars, students, and devotees of the decorative arts, this volume provides a comprehensive look at the Getty's fine collection.
The Saga of the Middleham Jewel
Vera Seaton
Author : Vera Seaton
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496975706
The Saga of the Middleham Jewel by Vera Seaton Pdf
This is the story of the famous Middleham Jewel and how the lives of an entire family were changed as a result of this single metal detector find. This story starts in Barnard Castle at a little antiques and collectables shop called The Mudlark, which belonged to Ted and Vera Seaton. They had moved to Barnard Castle after Ted had been made redundant because of the recession of the seventies. With a young daughter to take care of, they decided to become self-employed. In February 1978 they had sold their house in Gateshead-on-Tyne to buy the shop, using their collectables as the stock. Ted was an amateur historian and archaeologist as well as a keen metal detectorist. He was a modern detective who believed in using scientific gadgets that could help in his search for artefacts that would tell him a story. He was a talented man who understood the ways people lived in the past, and he was able to read the land, as it were. He walked the countryside and tuned into it using his psychic abilities as well as taking in the visual evidence. He could see where there used to be streams, dwellings and bridle paths that were now buried under vegetation and invisible to the untrained eye. He was sensitive to good and bad vibrations in a given location. He found and donated many artefacts to local museums. He was also actively involved in archaeological digs when help was required. On the 2nd of September 1985, while out metal detecting with two of his friends, Ted unearthed what became known as the Middleham Jewel. After it was declared not to be treasure trove, it was returned to him. At this time, he and his family and friends had no idea how it would change their lives.
Information Sources in Art, Art History and Design
Simon Ford
Author : Simon Ford
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783110954500
Information Sources in Art, Art History and Design by Simon Ford Pdf
The aim of each volume of this series Guides to Information Sources is to reduce the time which needs to be spent on patient searching and to recommend the best starting point and sources most likely to yield the desired information. The criteria for selection provide a way into a subject to those new to the field and assists in identifying major new or possibly unexplored sources to those who already have some acquaintance with it. The series attempts to achieve evaluation through a careful selection of sources and through the comments provided on those sources.
Makers of the Piano: 1820-1860
Martha Novak Clinkscale
Author : Martha Novak Clinkscale
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Music
ISBN : 0198166257
Makers of the Piano: 1820-1860 by Martha Novak Clinkscale Pdf
This book continues the overview of early pianos begun in Clinkscale's Makers of the Piano 1700-1820 (OUP, 1993). Although a few of the biographies overlap, the majority of the makers are completely new. Approximately 2,400 makers and manufacturers and about 2,200 pianos are listed. Of this total, about 645 are English, the majority of whom were active in London; more than 200 of the London makers have not been discussed in previous publications.