Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label History. Show all posts

Monday, April 4, 2016

Art of the Deal: Contemporary Art in a Global Financial Market SALE

Title : Art of the Deal: Contemporary Art in a Global Financial Market
Category: History
Brand: Princeton University Press
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Rating : 4.4
Buyer Review : 7

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Art today is defined by its relationship to money as never before. Prices have been driven to unprecedented heights, conventional boundaries within the art world have collapsed, and artists think ever more strategically about how to advance their careers. Art is no longer simply made, but packaged, sold, and branded. In Art of the Deal, Noah Horowitz exposes the inner workings of the contemporary art market, explaining how this unique economy came to be, how it works, and where it's headed.


In a new postscript, Horowitz reflects on the evolution of the trade since the book's original release in 2011, shining light on the market's continued ascent as well as its most urgent challenges.





Review :
Poor
This is not a book as much as it is an incomplete academic research paper. First of all the "book" has only 3 chapters, Video Art, Experimental Art and Investment Funds. More than 1/3 of the entire text(pages 215-361) is simply reference material(i.e. appendix, citations, bibliography etc.)

This book reads like an academic paper and is not very useful or interesting. For a much better read on the insights into Contemporary Art Market I would suggest the The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art by Don Thomson.The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art

Great read
An accessible, informative and highly enjoyable read. It's a great look at the conteporary art market with enough story-telling and background that I felt like an insider by the end, despite being just a casual art observor. I received as a gift and it's been a hit for everyone I've done the same for.

A long overdue book on understanding the art market
Art of the Deal is an inspiring excavation of the many building blocks of the art market, weaving a succinct walkthrough of art historical insights with clever perspectives on contemporary practice. I finished the book astonished that something similar had not been written long ago--after all we live in a world where understanding market behaviour is no longer desirable but a must! Although the book cannot be said to be easy reading to the layman reader, testing our understanding of both cutting-edge art historical theories and complex financial factors, it is nonetheless a highly enjoyable read. I especially found myself amused when reading the chapter on experiential art: Indeed, how does one price an art work consisting of the artist cooking a meal and leaving the messy kitchen behind!? Having read Noah Horowitz' book, I can now say that I better understand the Art of the Deal!

Friday, February 5, 2016

New Deal: Hope for the Nation (Perspectives on History) Discount !!

Title : New Deal: Hope for the Nation (Perspectives on History)

Brand: Brand: History Compass
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When Franklin D. Roosevelt became President in March of 1933, the nation was near the depths of the Great Depression. Under his leadership, the ""New Deal"" quickly began to take shape. The series of programs gave the federal government a more substantial role in helping the nation's economy return to and then stay on a steady and prosperous course. The volume includes the major New Deal Programs, writing by Eleanor Roosevelt, a section on Roosevelt's critics, cartoons, and photographs.


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Monday, February 1, 2016

New Deal Photographs of West Virginia, 1934-1943 Get Rabate

Title : New Deal Photographs of West Virginia, 1934-1943
Category: History
Brand: Rivard, Betty (EDT)/ Fleischhauer, Carl (FRW)/ Thomas, Jerry Bruce (INT)
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Rating : 4.7
Buyer Review : 6

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Upon entering the White House in 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt faced an ailing economy in the throes of the Great Depression and rushed to transform the country through recovery programs and legislative reform. By 1934, he began to send professional photographers to the state of West Virginia to document living conditions and the effects of his New Deal programs. The photographs from the Farm Security Administration Project not only introduced “America to Americans,” exposing a continued need for government intervention, but also captured powerful images of life in rural and small town America.
New Deal Photographs of West Virginia, 1934-1943 presents images of the state’s northern and southern coalfields, the subsistence homestead projects of Arthurdale, Eleanor, and Tygart Valley, and various communities from Charleston to Clarksburg and Parkersburg to Elkins. With over one hundred and fifty images by ten FSA photographers, including Walker Evans, Marion Post Wolcott, Arthur Rothstein, and Ben Shahn, this collection is a remarkable proclamation of hardship, hope, endurance, and, above all, community. These photographs provide a glimpse into the everyday lives of West Virginians during the Great Depression and beyond.


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Review :
Photos Provide New Insight Into Everyday Life in Bygone Era
As a suburban Midwesterner, I discovered a whole new world in this book's striking photos of everyday life in West Virginia during the toughest of times during the '30s and '40s. The thoughtful commentary makes the entire era come alive, and you'll be surprised how many now well-known and distinguished photographers participated in this government-funded project.

Very nice book - well thought out and put together - thought provoking
Disclosure - I was born and raised in the northern coalfields area of West Virginia within less than a decade after the photos in those chapters of the book were taken. Still, it reflects how that area looked during my youth, and how in many respects it looks not much different today. The book features photographs by such (now) well known New Deal era photographers as Ben Shahn, Walker Evans and Marion Post Walcott (among others). The photos are of the exceptional quality you'd expect. Here's what strikes me - how the photographers looked at their subjects then and how a photojournalist might look at them today. In those days, there was grinding poverty, filth and bad health in the coal camps. Yet when you look at the photos, if you did not know that, you might say, "Hey, these folks don't look so bad off. They don't live in mansions, but they're mostly well dressed and mostly look well fed." Not to critize, but the photos look sanitized compared to my perception of the actual...
Life in The WV Coalfields
The book depicted life in WV during those years very well. I grew up in the coal fields in the 40s & 50s and the pictures sure did bring back memories of the way things used to be.