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All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art: Shortlisted for the 2024 Nero Book Awards de Orlando Whitfield

All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art: Shortlisted for the 2024 Nero Book Awards

Autor Orlando Whitfield
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 apr 2025

Deși All That Glitters se concentrează pe o narațiune densă de tip memorii, cele peste 330 de pagini funcționează ca o fereastră rară către o lume unde imaginea este totul, iar substanța este adesea o iluzie. Considerăm că raportul dintre mărturia personală și analiza mecanismelor pieței de artă este echilibrat cu o precizie chirurgicală, oferind cititorului nu doar o poveste despre înșelăciune, ci o experiență senzorială a luxului și a decadenței. Recomandăm acest volum pentru felul în care Orlando Whitfield reușește să redea textura tranzacțiilor de milioane de dolari și atmosfera galeriilor exclusiviste, unde granița dintre entuziasm estetic și lăcomie pură devine insesizabilă.

Subliniem că stilul autorului este unul ascuțit și plin de spirit, transformând ceea ce ar fi putut fi o simplă cronică judiciară într-un portret viu al unei prietenii care se dezintegrează sub greutatea fraudei. Complementar lui The Violet Hour de James Cahill din aceeași perioadă artistică, dar cu o perspectivă documentară mult mai viscerală, All That Glitters renunță la satira ficționalizată în favoarea unei realități care depășește orice scenariu. Dacă în alte lucrări despre piața de artă accentul cade pe obiect, aici accentul este pus pe psihologia dealerului și pe aura de invincibilitate pe care o creează succesul financiar. Este o lectură care pulsează de ritmul alert al unei vieți trăite la limita legii, oferind un acces fără precedent în culisele unei industrii adesea opace.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781788169967
ISBN-10: 1788169964
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Profile Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricui este fascinat de mecanismele din spatele succesului și de fragilitatea reputației. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a pieței de artă contemporană, văzută nu ca un muzeu, ci ca un teren de vânătoare financiar. Este o poveste despre cum ambiția poate transforma pasiunea pentru frumos într-o fraudă de proporții gigantice, relatată de un martor care a trăit totul din interior.

Despre autor

Orlando Whitfield este un scriitor și fost dealer de artă care și-a început cariera studiind istoria artei la Goldsmiths, University of London. Experiența sa directă în tranzacționarea operelor de artă și relația sa personală de lungă durată cu Inigo Philbrick i-au oferit o perspectivă unică asupra scandalului care a zguduit lumea colecționarilor. Prin All That Glitters, debutul său editorial apreciat de critici, Whitfield se impune ca o voce lucidă și capabilă să traducă complexitatea pieței de artă într-o narațiune captivantă pentru publicul larg.

Notă biografică

Orlando Whitfield is a writer and a failed art dealer. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Times Literary Supplement, The Paris Review and British GQ. All That Glitters is his first book.

Descriere scurtă

A 2024 Book of the Year pick in the Economist, Independent, Prospect, Apollo, New Yorker and at WaterstonesA 2024 Summer Read in the Economist, Telegraph, Guardian, New Yorker, i, and the Evening Standard'My favourite book of 2024... A masterclass of a book' Brandon Taylor'An art world Great Gatsby, deliciously withering and dishy.' Patrick Radden Keefe'Orlando Whitfield [is a] really good writer with crazy stories to tell' Hanif Kureishi DECEPTION IS A FINE ART. When Orlando Whitfield first meets Inigo Philbrick, they are students dreaming of dealing art for a living. Their friendship lasts for fifteen years until one day, Inigo - by then the most successful dealer of his generation - suddenly disappears, accused of a fraud so gigantic and audacious it rocks the art world to its core.A sparklingly sharp memoir of greed, ambition and madness, All That Glitters will take you to the heart of the contemporary art world, a place wilder and wealthier than you could ever imagine.'Explosive... the inside story of the biggest art fraud in American history' Guardian'Liar's Poker, but for art' Economist

Recenzii

This is "Liar's Poker" for the art world.
Educational, entertaining and very enjoyable
The culture of discretion that enshrouds the art market obscures a multitude of sins, so it is bracing (and great fun) to watch Orlando Whitfield flout the code of silence to name names, cite prices, and reveal scams. All That Glitters is an art world GREAT GATSBY, deliciously withering and dishy, a parable about the price of beauty, the power of charisma, and the limits of friendship.
Exhilarating... Orlando Whitfield tells the story of his former friend's downfall in thrilling detail... Compulsively readable
Compelling. . . This is a world full of thieves, chancers, con artists
My favourite book of 2024... A masterclass of a book
A lacerating critique of the contemporary art market ... All That Glitters is as compulsive as a thriller. It is literary dynamite - a blazing exposé that cracks open an elite sphere cloaked in mystery and lays it mercilessly bare
The art world revealed in this delicious, sharp and often breathtaking memoir is one of excess and illusion those of us outside it can barely imagine, and Whitfield unveils it nimbly and wisely. Funny, juicy, wistful and sad, it's destined to be one of the books of 2024
Brilliant
Explosive ... the inside story of the biggest art fraud in American history
A jaw-dropping, riveting true-crime memoir
Studded with blue-chip names, multi-million-dollar paintings, private jets and bottles of Dom Pérignon '08, this tantalizing glimpse by a former dealer into the art world's most rarefied stratum doubles as a cautionary tale about a largely unregulated industry where hubris, greed and fraud abound
An elegy for a friendship ... exceptionally accomplished ... Whitfield exposes the dubious financial mores of the very highest end of the contemporary market
A highly readable and perceptive account of how contemporary art is bought and sold
Readers drawn to the book's promise of an insider's recollections of the art-dealing ecosystem will not be disappointed
Whitfield writes beguilingly and amusingly, enhanced by an art dealer's eye ... made me laugh out loud
A jaw-dropping romp through the absurd world of art dealing... All That Glitters is a hell of a read.
The book of the year
One of the hottest memoirs of 2024
Highly personal ... an excellent account of how Philbrick rose to a jet-setting, cocaine-and-champagne fuelled lifestyle
Art, money and greed combine in All That Glitters ... a compelling read
A wry, sparkling memoir ... All That Glitters is a veritable masterpiece
I cannot conceive of a better book about the grisly nature of the art world than this... Hugely entertaining
Ultra-vivid ... it reads like a true crime documentary
A story about art, the art market and disillusionment
A diabolically delicious snapshot of the Art world's luminous façade
A tremendous book. A fantastically entertaining and brutally honest account of the scurrility of the contemporary art world. A brilliant, devastating exposé
Juicier than a bottle of Gamay at lunchtime and even more intoxicating, All That Glitters is an amazing takedown of a world that desperately needed taking down.
Whitfield tells the story vividly, winning our trust. He is clearly thoughtful and principled. He has a great ear for dialogue and rarely overwrites. Still, questions remain. If an old friend were to land in prison, would you keep omertà? Or would you write a sharply observed memoir, building up their glamour while not holding back on their character failings over the years? If so, would it be a betrayal - or a valuable exercise in truth-telling? This is the latter, I think.
When high-flying art-dealer Inigo Philbrick was convicted of a multimillion-dollar fraud, it rocked the industry ... Whitfield details the web of deceit that led to his downfall
In Orlando Whitfield's gripping memoir, All That Glitters, the murky underbelly of the art world is laid bare with startling clarity...What sets All That Glitters apart is Whitfield's fearless disregard for the art world's code of silence. With sharp wit and unflinching honesty, he names, cites prices, and reveals scams, painting a vivid picture of an industry intoxicated by wealth and power
Packed with page-turning incident and colourful characters, Whitfield's eye-opening window into the glamorous, deceitful world of fine art is a thrilling story of greed, fraud and betrayal
At the coal face of rich awfulness for more than a decade , Orlando Whitfield worked as a London art dealer and gallerist ... [Whitfield] writes with brilliantly descriptive , and often tendentious eloquence
Philbrick's story serves as a means for Whitfield masterfully to illuminate the opaque and mysterious art world for readers, explaining the shady operations of the commercial gallery system, the role and place of auction houses and, above all, the transformation of art into an asset class and a vehicle for investment: a mere entry on a ledger. For anybody curious to learn the grubby reality of the art market, Whitfield's memoir makes for essential reading.
Incredible and disturbing
A rip-roaring artworld exposé, All That Glitters is a true story of corruption and crime in the international art market from the perspective of the young men made greedy and duplicitous by it. Call it-The Wolf of Mayfair. In a world of counterfeits, phonies, and frauds, Orlando Whitfield is the real deal
All That Glitters is a shocking, funny, and brilliantly written tour of the morally depraved art market. Whitfield writes blisteringly about the infantile excesses of wealth, and beautifully about art.
A gripping look at a high-octane collision of glamour, art and money
Fascinating
Sharp-eyed, knowing, witty, this one of a kind memoir is a treat. Whitfield may have burned his bridges to the glittery art world he skewers here, but his book shines with solid gold.
Thrillingly written
Whitfield reflects on regretting an old friend of Inigo Philbrick ... As Philbrick rises and Whitfield becomes disenchanted with the art world, it painfully describes how business almost destroyed the British author's life. All That Glitters is at its height a sad tale of male friendship gone wrong
In the largely unregulated art market, sharp practices and scams can go under the radar - but only for so long. This is Whitfield's account of how his charismatic friend and business partner ended up in federal prison for a multimillion-dollar fraud
'An art-world story and a scammer story ... One of the most endearing aspects of Whitfield's narrative is the precision and enthusiasm with which he pinpoints all the traits that drew him to Philbrick and kept drawing him in, even as flickers of his friend's predatory unscrupulousness began to emerge.