The Art Dealers, Revised & Expanded: The Powers Behind the Scene Tell How the Art World Really Works (Hardcover)

~ Laura de Coppet (Author), Alan Jones (Author)

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55 interviews with art dealers--from postwar giants like Leo Castelli and Betty Parsons to the art magnates of today--create a well-rounded picture of how the art world operates, how galleries work with artists, how prices are established, what it takes t

Product Details

• Hardcover: 440 pages
• Publisher: Cooper Square Press; Rev Exp edition (November 25, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0815412452
• ISBN-13: 978-0815412458
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 7.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #547,809 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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29 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Formulaic Padding, October 30, 2002

By A Customer

This is a mere formulaic padding of the prior edition of this book. There are a few new chapters. In some cases, these chapters address dealers who have come into prominence since the 1985 edition. Other dealers given equal attention were added for reasons that shall remain mysterious, as they address players never known or soon to be forgotten. The original chapters related to figures such as Sydney Janis and Leo Castelli have some historical interest. The new chapters tend to be shorter and tend to suffer from a narrow focus on the personal background of the dealer and the editors' apparent effort to prompt the dealers to speak to art world issues that may have been new or compelling in 1985 (e.g., the "new" role of auction houses) but which are certainly capillary today. The upshot is that I learned quite literally nothing about the contemporary art market.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Art Dealers: The Powers Behind the Scene Tell How the Ar, November 28, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The Art Dealers: The Powers Behind the Scene Tell How the Art World Works (Paperback)

This book sheds real light into how New York based art dealers from the 1940s to the 1980s lived, worked and thought about art. There are many interesting anecdotes, opinions and brief biographies inside this book filled with short essays about some 25 dealers who hepled shape the world of art as it is still known today.