Tales from the art crypt
Subtitle: the painters, the museums, the curators, the collectors, the auctions, the art
By: Richard Feigen.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Feigen, Richard L., 1930-; Richard L. Feigen & Company; Art dealers -- United States -- Biography; Art -- Anecdotes; Art -- Collectors and collecting
Genres: Biography.; Anecdotes.
Description: "Richard Feigen writes about the painters he has known and represented (among them James Rosenquist, Jasper Johns, Jean Dubuffet, and Joseph Cornell), and about others whose work he has collected. He writes about his galleries in Chicago and New York City, and about his fellow dealers, including Julien Levy and Leo Castelli.".

"He talks about the "eye" that allows a dealer to recognize a fine painting. He discusses the great art-owning families, art historians, scholars, and conservators. He recounts the story of the debacle at the Barnes Foundation that resulted in the undoing of Albert Barnes's vision for his museum, and reveals the fate of the art-works that belonged to Gertrude Stein.

He dissects the art boom of the 1980s and its effects, and takes on the commercialism plaguing American museums today: blockbuster exhibitions and the replacement of great directors with "professional administrators.""--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]).