Twenty views on various aspects of the art market — in a single edition

Art-бизнес today. 20 key themes

Editors: Jos Hackforth-Джонс and Ian Robertson
year: 2017
224 page
publisher: LundHumphries, UK / Sotheby’sInstituteofArt, USA
ISBN: 9781848220911

In the history of literature about art is an indisputable truth: to create a good book, not necessarily to write it yourself. Main — to choose the right article literate authors. In 2008, a collection of interviews with leading curators, under the title "a brief history of curating" has made of the author and interviewer Hans Ulrich Obrist the curator of No. 1 in the world. The editor of the book, of which we speak, Ian Robertson at the time of the publication of "Art-бизнес today" to take a place in the Pantheon of authors was not necessary: he made that in 2014 a monograph on international markets, which AI wrote earlier. However, in the editorial co-authors of a new book Robertson added his immediate superior — Director of the Institute of art Sotheby's Jos Hackforth-Джонс.

And it looks completely justified. Twenty articles publications written eleven teachers Sotheby's and at the same time professionals of the market. Among them we can find and familiar us Melanie Gerlis, and legal consultant to Bonham's Tom Christopherson, and researcher of the influence of the art market at public museums David Chong. The author and main editor Robertson took on the most "delicious" theme: globalization, emerging markets, international art-ярмарки and investing in objects of art. But on the other had: issues of expertise and attribution management, collection, legal aspects, including favorite artists right of succession, of relations with the dealers, selling to private and public markets and, finally, modern technology. The book is missing is that the answer to the question that with all this baggage to do next.

the format of the publication does not involve a gradual immersion in the art market, which we see in "monolithic" authors, following the structure of the drama, like Donald Thompson. "20 key topics" — is twenty views of different authors on topical issues of the common market art. Materials written by different language, but contains very good links to continue independent study of any selected topics. In Western literature publications are often distributed in terms of training readers: this legitimately would have adorned the inscription on the Advanced ("for experienced readers". — AI.).

How out of date material publications by 2020? New factors influencing the art market, which could be supplemented edition appeared a year later, in 2018-м. In 2019-м such changes would be greater, and today — more than a hundred times. However, if the reader wants to keep up in the development of the art market today, the first thing he needs to know, — is what happened in the market yesterday.

Denys Belkevych, AI