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Dark side of the boom : the excesses of the art market in the twenty-first century

Adam, Georgina, author

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\"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\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Lund Humphries
• Subject: Art Economic aspects History 21st century. / Art Marketing History 21st century. / Art as an investment.
• ISBN: 9781848222205, 1848222203

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
N8600.A333 2017	1	BOOK	ARTS