Rogues' gallery
Subtitle: the rise (and occasional fall) of art dealers, the hidden players in the history of art
By: Philip Hook
Publisher: The Experiment, LLC
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9781615194162
Subjects: Art dealers; Art; Collectors and collecting; History
Description: 298 pages : 24 cm
Notes: "Originally published in the UK as Rogues' Gallery: A History of Art and Its Dealers by Profile Books Ltd in 2017."

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