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Dark side of the boom, the excesses of the art market in the twenty-first century, Georgina Adam

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Dark side of the boom, the excesses of the art market in the twenty-first century, Georgina Adam

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Dark side of the boom

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1021844338

Responsibility statement

Georgina Adam

Sub title

the excesses of the art market in the twenty-first century

Summary

"This book scrutinizes the excesses and extravagances that the 21st-century explosion of the contemporary art market brought in its wake. The buying of art as an investment, temptations to forgery and fraud, tax evasion, money laundering and pressure to produce more and more art all form part of this story, as do the upheavals in auction houses and the impact of the enhanced use of financial instruments on art transactions. Drawing on a series of tenaciously wrought interviews with artists, collectors, lawyers, bankers and convicted artist forgers, the author charts the voracious commodification of artists and art objects, and art's position in the clandestine puzzle of the highest echelons of global capital. Adam's revelations appear even more timely in the wake of the Panama Papers revelations, for example incorporating examples of the way tax havens have been used to stash art transactions - and ownership - away from public scrutiny. With the same captivating style of her bestselling Big Bucks: The Explosion of the Art Market in the 21st Century, Georgina Adam casts her judicious glance over a section of the art market whose controversies and intrigues will be of eye-opening interest to both art-world players and observers."--Amazon.com

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- Prologue: Le Freeport, Luxembourg -- Sustaining the big bucks market : Supply ; Demand: China wakes -- A fortune on your wall? : What's the price? ; The problems with authentication ; A tsunami of forgery -- Money, money, money : Investment ; Speculation ; The dark side -- Postscript -- Appendix

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Excesses of the art market in the twenty-first century

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