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The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics Of Contemporary Art (2008)

by Don Thompson(Favorite Author)

3.79 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0230610226 (ISBN13: 9780230610224)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

review 1: Adesso capisco l'arte contemporanea.Il valore artistico scaturisce dal valore economico.Damien Hirst �� un genio*, oltre che un artista*.Le opere d'arte contemporanea riportano la dicitura "Da consumarsi entro il", alcune con la variante "preferibilmente".Il termine "brand" appare nel testo esattamente 12.345,33 volte.Se queste frasi apparissero su un Basquiat farebbero parte dell'arte.PS Almeno una delle precedenti affermazioni �� vera.* taciamo l'argomento.
review 2: Right I've been sitting here for over an hour trying to decide if I actually liked this book and if I would recommend it, and have come to two conclusions: no, I didn't, but yes, I would. That might seem odd, but trust me, there's some logic behind it.The thing is, the book is flawed in t... morehat the focus is narrow, the humor falls flat, and some parts are unnecessarily sexist, BUT it's super informative. I guess there's no better way to understand a market populated by clueless jerks than by hearing it explained by a clueless jerk. I'm baffled by how Thompson thinks he's going to cover the economic of contemporary art when he limits himself to paintings/drawings and sculpture, when the really interesting economics surround works that can't be put in your home: how do you sell performance art, besides by tickets? How do art works on film straddle the economics between art and mainstream movie production? How about large-scale instillation pieces, or outdoors sculptural projects? Ongoing projects? Art that's illegal? All of these questions Thompson dismisses because he doesn't "understand" that art, (the claim, I think, is made to appeal to the every man who derides a Pollock because "my child could do that", but it just makes Thompson seem dim.)(If you're turned off by that paragraph, I recommend Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton. She covers much of the same things with less technicality and less grossness.)BUT what it does cover, it covers well. The economics are dumbed down enough to be understood by someone who only got a B- in AP Econ in high school, and the amount of names dropped is just staggering. When you're done the book, you're really not, because you're going to want to spend the next few days looking up everyone he mentions. There are a lot of interesting characters in the art world, that's for sure. It's also still kind of funny to read books about economics published before the recession, which renders his "speculation on the future of the art economy" chapter at the end of the book tragically quaint.A last note: not recommended to anyone who would repeatedly throw the book across the room at the mention of hundreds of millions of dollars being spent on art. Or who doesn't get Readymades. Better to just not. less

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