Rogues' gallery : the rise (and occasional fall) of art dealers, the hidden players in the history of art /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hook, Philip (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Experiment, 2017.
Subjects:	Art dealers. Art > Collectors and collecting > History. ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES > Art. ART > History > Modern (late 19th Century to 1945) BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Commerce.

Table of Contents:

Renaissance and Enlightenment. Agents and Merchants: Dealing before 1700
Crooks and Connoisseurs: the Eighteenth Century
The Nineteenth Century. The Art of Speculation: William Buchanan
Ernest Gambart and the Victorian Art Boom
Modern Times. Joseph Duveen: the Salesman as Artist
The Wildenstein Dynasty
Selling the New: Paul Durand-Ruel
The Enrichment of Ambroise Vollard
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler: Dealer as Purist
The Fox and the Shrimp: the Rosenberg Brothers
Terrorists and Tastemakers: More French Dealers
From Cassirer to Berggruen: the Germans
Gentlemen and Players: the British
Into the Contemporary World. Peter Wilson and the Invention of the Modern Art Market
The Art of Shopping: Dealing in the USA
Leo Castelli and the American Dream
The Cutting Edge.