Rogues and Scholars
Autor James Stourtonen Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 feb 2025
A Times Best Art Book of the Year, 2024
'A riot of a book' - Country Life's Books of the Year, 2024
The modern art market was born on a single night. On 15 October 1958 Sotheby's of Bond Street staged an 'event sale' of Impressionist paintings from the collection of an American banker, Erwin Goldschmidt: three Manets, two Cézannes, one Van Gogh and a Renoir. Movie stars and other celebrities attended in black tie and saw the seven lots go for £781,000 - at the time the highest price for a single art sale.
Overnight, London became the world centre of the art market and Sotheby's an international auction house. The event signalled a shift in power from dealers to auctioneers and pointed the way for Impressionist paintings to dominate the market for the next forty years. In this climate Sotheby's and Christie's became a great business duopoly - as aggressive, dominant and competitive in the field of art sales as Pepsi and Coca-Cola were in soft drinks. The resulting expansion of the market was accompanied by rocketing prices, colourful scandals and legal dramas. Over the decades, London transformed itself from a place of old master sales to a revitalised centre of contemporary art, a process crowned by the opening of Tate Modern in 2000.
James Stourton tells the story of the London art market from the immediate postwar period to the turn of the millennium in engaging and fast-paced style, populating his richly entertaining narrative with a glorious rogues' gallery of clever amateurs, eccentric scholars, brilliant emigrés, cockney traders and grandees with a flair for the deal.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781639368235
ISBN-10: 163936823X
Pagini: 432
Dimensiuni: 165 x 236 x 41 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Editura: Pegasusbooks
ISBN-10: 163936823X
Pagini: 432
Dimensiuni: 165 x 236 x 41 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Editura: Pegasusbooks
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Recenzii
James Stourton is an excellent art historian and brilliant storyteller; a heady combination that makes Rogues & Scholars the must-read art book of the year.
A perceptive, authoritative and highly readable account of the golden age of the British art market.
With panache and characteristically elegant penmanship, James Stourton throws open the doors to a riveting chapter in the history of art in which glamorous eccentricities, serious scholarship and a good deal of swindling cohabit... Stourton brings us a gripping and thoroughly researched chronicle of the post-war art market, punctuated with the occasional 'you couldn't make this up' moment. Rogues & Scholars is just as entertaining as it is educational.
Riveting and gossipy
Erudite and amusing ... Stourton succeeds in capturing the enduring allure of a largely unregulated and mercurial market, one populated with go-betweens and fixers and peppered with beautiful things. A combination that is both its charm and its flaw.
Accessible, wide-ranging and continually fascinating . Stourton has delivered a fascinating tale, Hogarthian in its cast, a rollercoaster ride for the individuals and concerns describer, and a work more insightful than most novels
What a treat.
As an overview of the London art market, Stourton's book cannot be bettered.
An erudite and authoritative history of the London art market from World War II to our century. Outstanding in its own field, Rogues and Scholars nears Anthony Bourdain's tell-all Kitchen Confidential.
James Stourton offers a roller-coaster ride through the post-war London art market, an almost breathless account of dizzying ascents and dramatic plunges told through a cast of characters at times barely credible - or perhaps all too credible? - and tales that may seem too fantastical to be true. Readers, however, should not be fooled. This pacy and entertaining narrative belies an insider's deep understanding and astute analysis of his subject . [Stourton] has negotiated contentious and potentially tedious terrain with a lightness of touch, a genius for the telling anecdote or quote and an estimable ability to pare down facts to the essential.
Praise for James Stourton's Heritage:
[A] huge, energetic and tightly written tome on the two-and-half-century history of conservation battles in our homeland... A masterful, dynamic and extremely readable survey of one the major issues of our times. Or all times
It not only covers the conservation and protection of our buildings and landscapes, but also the wider cultural aspects
Compelling and thought-provoking, this book not only explores how Britain's rich and diverse heritage has been conserved (and in some cases destroyed) in the past, but offers a ray of hope for its future
A perceptive, authoritative and highly readable account of the golden age of the British art market.
With panache and characteristically elegant penmanship, James Stourton throws open the doors to a riveting chapter in the history of art in which glamorous eccentricities, serious scholarship and a good deal of swindling cohabit... Stourton brings us a gripping and thoroughly researched chronicle of the post-war art market, punctuated with the occasional 'you couldn't make this up' moment. Rogues & Scholars is just as entertaining as it is educational.
Riveting and gossipy
Erudite and amusing ... Stourton succeeds in capturing the enduring allure of a largely unregulated and mercurial market, one populated with go-betweens and fixers and peppered with beautiful things. A combination that is both its charm and its flaw.
Accessible, wide-ranging and continually fascinating . Stourton has delivered a fascinating tale, Hogarthian in its cast, a rollercoaster ride for the individuals and concerns describer, and a work more insightful than most novels
What a treat.
As an overview of the London art market, Stourton's book cannot be bettered.
An erudite and authoritative history of the London art market from World War II to our century. Outstanding in its own field, Rogues and Scholars nears Anthony Bourdain's tell-all Kitchen Confidential.
James Stourton offers a roller-coaster ride through the post-war London art market, an almost breathless account of dizzying ascents and dramatic plunges told through a cast of characters at times barely credible - or perhaps all too credible? - and tales that may seem too fantastical to be true. Readers, however, should not be fooled. This pacy and entertaining narrative belies an insider's deep understanding and astute analysis of his subject . [Stourton] has negotiated contentious and potentially tedious terrain with a lightness of touch, a genius for the telling anecdote or quote and an estimable ability to pare down facts to the essential.
Praise for James Stourton's Heritage:
[A] huge, energetic and tightly written tome on the two-and-half-century history of conservation battles in our homeland... A masterful, dynamic and extremely readable survey of one the major issues of our times. Or all times
It not only covers the conservation and protection of our buildings and landscapes, but also the wider cultural aspects
Compelling and thought-provoking, this book not only explores how Britain's rich and diverse heritage has been conserved (and in some cases destroyed) in the past, but offers a ray of hope for its future