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Between the `Black Death' in the mid-fourteenth century and the French invasions at the end of the fifteenth, artists such as Masaccio, Donatello, Fra Angelico, and Leonardo, working in the kingdoms, princedoms, and republics of the Italian penins...

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The wayward life (1898-1979) of the voracious art collector and great female patron of world-famous artists. 'Mrs Guggenheim, how many husbands have you had?' 'Do you mean my own, or other people's?' Peggy Guggenheim was an American millionairess ...

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You must read this book before buying any artwork - written by the world's leading art-market economist Navigating the world of collecting can be a tricky process, especially for one just starting out in the art market. The world's leading art mar...

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Based on previously unpublished documents, this book traces the life in Paris of Countess Olga von Hohenfelsen, later known as Princess Paley, the morganatic wife of Grand Duke Paul of Russia, uncle of the last emperor, Nicholas II. While immersin...

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Contemporary art has become a mass entertainment, a luxury good, a job description and, for some, a kind of alternative religion. Sarah Thornton's shrewd and entertaining fly-on-the-wall narrative takes us behind the scenes of the art world, from ...

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Each year art and antiques worth many billions of pounds are sold at auction. These auctions consist of numerous, intense episodes of social interaction through which the price of goods rapidly escalates until sold on the strike of a hammer. In th...

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Art Thinking takes readers on a journey into the captivating intersection between art, luxury and fashion brands and businesses. It explores the notion of brands as cultural agents and how art can act as a mediator between meaning and management. ...

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Why would a smart New York investment banker pay twelve million dollars for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a shark? By what alchemy does Jackson Pollock' s drip painting No.5 1948 sell for $140 million? The first book to look at the economics of...

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A Handbook to the Art Market The new look on the history of art and its blind spots, the far-reaching digitization of structures and content, the changing role of museums and art criticism, new forces from influencers to NFTs: Hardly any market sy...

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The last twenty years have seen a rise in the production, circulation, and criticism of new forms of socially engaged art aimed at achieving social justice and economic equality. In Wages Against Artwork Leigh Claire La Berge shows how socially en...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE BREAD AND ROSES AWARD FOR RADICAL PUBLISHING 'Irreverent, provocative and funny' Dazed 'This book might change the way you look at art, or change the way you feel it' Daisy Hildyard 'A full...

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A biography of Winnaretta Singer-Polignac, heiress to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune, who befriended and subsidized some of the most important musical and literary artists of the 20th Century, including Stravinsky, Proust, Ravel, Cocteau, and C...

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Breakfast at Sotheby's is a wry, intimate, truly revealing exploration of how art acquires its financial value, from Philip Hook, a senior director at Sotheby's 'Reading it is like participating in a hugely enjoyable personal tutorial given by a c...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE BREAD AND ROSES AWARD FOR RADICAL PUBLISHING 'Irreverent, provocative and funny' Dazed 'This book might change the way you look at art, or change the way you feel it' Daisy Hildyard 'A full...

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Stockholms Auktionsverk är världens äldsta auktionshus. Det grundades i februari 1674 av riksrådet Claes Rålamb, en maktspelare i stormaktstidens Sverige. Här kunde stockholmarna omsätta sina varor i reda pengar vid skulder, dödsfall eller andra l...

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The Indispensable Roadmap Artists Need to Navigate Their Careers"The Profitable Artist's chapters address a spectrum of practical topics for working artists." -Artsy.net While all art is unique, the challenges artists face are shared regardless of...

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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In Cork Dork, Bianca Bosker trained her insatiable curiosity, journalist's knack for infiltrating exclusive circles and eye for unforgettable characters on the wine world as she trained to become a sommelier. N...

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"[How to Become a Successful Artist]¿goes straight to the business of being an artist... Resch's book¿offers practical advice to remind readers that there's a lot more to being an artist than just making art." -¿ArtNews The must-have business guid...

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*Winner of the ICA Book of the Year, 2015* Now that we 'curate' even lunch, what happens to the role of the connoisseur in contemporary culture? 'Curate' has become a buzzword, applied to everything from music festivals to artisanal cheese. Inside...

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A spirited portrait of the colorful, irrepressible, and iconoclastic American collector who fearlessly advanced the cause of modern art One of twentieth-century America's most influential patrons of the arts, Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) brought t...

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CSI meets Who Do You Think You Are? meets Time Team meets The Antiques Roadshow. Two-dimensional works of art become three-dimensional thrillers. Philip Mould is an international art dealer who has lived the high stakes game of art sleuthing for t...

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This edition does not include illustrations.Please note that due to the level of detail, the family tree is best viewed on a tablet.The wayward life (1898-1979) of the voracious art collector and great female patron of world-famous artists.'Mrs Gu...

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A sweeping, beautifully written history of artistic patronage from 1000 to the present day by a Wolfson Prize-winning historian.'Marks of Opulence' is a magisterial survey of European art and artistic patronage from 1000 until the birth of moderni...

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The popularity of manga (Japanese comics) is growing at a phenomenal rate. This is a practical, easy-to-follow and fun introduction to the most popular contemporary art style of the moment and is ideal for the first-time manga artist.With manga be...

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