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A sharp-eyed assessment of the negative impact of the excesses at the top of the contemporary-art market in the 21st century, covering forgery, fraud, money-laundering, over-production and tax evasion, and drawing on a series of revealing interviews with artists, lawyers, dealers, law-enforcement agents, tax specialists and collectors.
List of contents
Introduction; Prologue; Part One: Sustaining the “Big Bucks”
Market; Chapter One: Supply; Chapter Two: Demand; Part Two: Price, Authenticity
and Forgery; Chapter Three: Price; Chapter Four: Authenticity; Chapter Five:
Fakes and Forgery; Part Three: Money, Money, Money; Chapter Six: Investment; Chapter
Seven: Speculation; Chapter Eight: The Dark Side; Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography;
Index
About the author
Georgina Adam has spent more than 30 years writing about the art market and the arts in general. She was editor of the Art Market section of The Art Newspaper 2000-2008, then editor at large. She wrote a weekly column for the Financial Times for eight years, until 2016. In 2014 she published Big Bucks: The Explosion of the Art Market in the 21st Century (Lund Humphries). In addition to her specialisation in the art market, Adam is particularly interested in emerging cultural centres. She lectures at Sotheby's Institute in London and participates in panels about the market: she is a board member of Talking Galleries, patron of the Association of Women Art Dealers and member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA).
Summary
A sharp-eyed assessment of the negative impact of the excesses at the top of the contemporary-art market in the 21st century, covering forgery, fraud, money-laundering, over-production and tax evasion, and drawing on a series of revealing interviews with artists, lawyers, dealers, law-enforcement agents, tax specialists and collectors.
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'A “must-read” for anyone with an interest in the relationship between art and money.' Daily Telegraph
