- Vinyl Bound: 200 pages
- Publisher: Taschen GmbH; illustrated edition edition (26 May 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 3822849391
- ISBN-13: 978-3822849392
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 16.8 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 479,995 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This work features words from the wise: insiders' tips on how to navigate the art market like a pro. "Art is about life, the art market is about money." - Damien Hirst. Whether you're an art fan, aficionado, or collector, this completely unique book should be on your required reading list. Like a textbook for a class given by all of the world's leading experts, "Collecting Contemporary" is the one and only book to teach you everything you ever wanted to know about the contemporary art market. The introduction explains the ABCs of buying art on the primary and secondary markets, at auction, and at art fairs and gives an overview of the world art scene and its social circles. The main body of the book brings together tell-all interviews with the biggest players in the global art market: the Critic (Rimanelli), the Dealer (Boesky, Deitch, Gagosian, Gladstone, Hetzler, Rosen, Shave), the Consultant (Cortez, Fletcher, Heller, Segalot, Westreich), the Collector (Brant, Broad, Joannou, Lambert, Lehmann, Miller, Pinault, Saatchi), the Auction House Expert (Cappellazzo, de Pury, Meyer), and the Museum Curator/Director (Dennison, Eccles, Heiss, Peyton-Jones, Lowry). Rounding up the book are chapters on the year in art collecting - giving a timeline of the most important annual auctions, exhibitions, fairs, etc. around the world - as well as a glossary of terms every art savvy player should know. The text is illustrated by the work of the hottest artists in today's market, including Matthew Barney, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Damien Hirst, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami, Richard Serra, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, Lisa Yuskavage, and many more. Do the math: all in all, these elements add up to the equivalent of an invaluable and privileged real-world collector's education - all between the covers one book.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Vinyl Bound
This is a really good book for somebody interested into gaining a first impression of the art market today. It is divided into different sections in which art dealers, art collectors, museum curators and art critics talk about their view on the art market, on how to collect, what makes a great collection, how to buy art etc. Very informative with lots of illustrations from contemporary artists. Probably not for the seasoned art buyer, but interesting for everybody else!
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Enter a whole new world!
17 Oct 2006
Format:Vinyl Bound
A book for the rest of us! Adam Lindeman lays out the basics surrounding the world of contemporary art using a series of interviews with collectors, dealers, critics and curators. As the book explains, contemporary art is hugely popular all over the world and the internet and art fairs have changed the nature of the business. This book is a primer for those who have touched the edges of the contemporary art world and will likely prove interesting for those who are already knowledgable.
The physical layout of the book and the excellent color reproductions of dozens of pieces is worth the price of admission on this one.
Alas Mr. Lindeman's decision not to include the opinions of any artists probably sums up the state of the contemporary art world. The artists are almost secondary to the process.
The physical layout of the book and the excellent color reproductions of dozens of pieces is worth the price of admission on this one.
Alas Mr. Lindeman's decision not to include the opinions of any artists probably sums up the state of the contemporary art world. The artists are almost secondary to the process.
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Helps explain today's art market
20 Nov 2006
Format:Vinyl Bound|Amazon Verified Purchase
Any collector of contemporary art should buy this one. Adam Lindeman has done a superb job of pulling together commentary from many of those who are generally recognized as among today's most influential curators, dealers, collectors and critics. We rarely get to hear from many of these people, yet their consensus is what makes the art market and, for those of us who have been observers for many years, that consensus is sometimes difficult to understand.
There are just enough pictures of works, all in color, to provide a backdrop to what is largely a book devoted to a monologue by each expert. Obviously a curator may have a different viewpoint from a dealer; collectors and critics offer further insights. Reading what each has to say from their various perspectives allows us to reach our own, more informed conclusions.
Would be a five-star rating but the format appears to be a standard list of questions submitted to each respondent with the answers then edited by Lindeman to fit the available space. An interactive format between author and respondent would have allowed some needed follow-up. We also don't hear from art world figures who were most signficant ten years ago, or, in a similar effort twenty years ago, de Coppet's The Art Dealers. The perspectives of those interviewed in de Coppet's book regarding today's art scene would be interesting.
One can hardly talk about collecting today without talking about valuations, and we note that several of Lindeman's participants question the prices currently being paid at auction for some younger artists, such as a million dollars for a Yuskavage when the same money will buy you a strong Close; more for a Glenn Brown than for the Frank Auerbach from which it is derived. The reader is left to reach his or her own conclusions. Still, you have to wonder, given the observations of several figures in the book that you can look at a 20-year old issue of ArtNews and you will not have heard of most of the artists featured: what are the various motivations of those "collecting contemporary" today?
There are just enough pictures of works, all in color, to provide a backdrop to what is largely a book devoted to a monologue by each expert. Obviously a curator may have a different viewpoint from a dealer; collectors and critics offer further insights. Reading what each has to say from their various perspectives allows us to reach our own, more informed conclusions.
Would be a five-star rating but the format appears to be a standard list of questions submitted to each respondent with the answers then edited by Lindeman to fit the available space. An interactive format between author and respondent would have allowed some needed follow-up. We also don't hear from art world figures who were most signficant ten years ago, or, in a similar effort twenty years ago, de Coppet's The Art Dealers. The perspectives of those interviewed in de Coppet's book regarding today's art scene would be interesting.
One can hardly talk about collecting today without talking about valuations, and we note that several of Lindeman's participants question the prices currently being paid at auction for some younger artists, such as a million dollars for a Yuskavage when the same money will buy you a strong Close; more for a Glenn Brown than for the Frank Auerbach from which it is derived. The reader is left to reach his or her own conclusions. Still, you have to wonder, given the observations of several figures in the book that you can look at a 20-year old issue of ArtNews and you will not have heard of most of the artists featured: what are the various motivations of those "collecting contemporary" today?
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
The Meaningful Multi Angle Perspective of the Art World
8 Feb 2007
Format:Vinyl Bound
Although Adam Lindemann has obviously his own strong opinions about the contemporary art world and market, he shows enormous restraint in this book in bringing forward the opinions of many people having a view on the subject from very different angles. I learned a lot. What I appreciate the most is a writer not shoveling information down my throat and wanting me to think like him/her but a writer who respects the reader and allow the reader to make his/her own decision, the same way as opinions about art might vary widely. It would be my pleasure to fill my evenings and thinking moments in the presence of people like this author who dares to take a fresh approach.
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