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Landscape with Figures: A History of Art Dealing in the United States
Contributor(s): Goldstein, Malcolm (Author)
ISBN: 019513673X     ISBN-13: 9780195136739
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE:   $70.30  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: November 2000
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BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Commerce
- Business & Economics | Marketing - General
- Architecture | Individual Architects & Firms - General
Dewey: 380.145
LCCN: 99044087
Lexile Measure: 1480
Physical Information: 1.25" H x 6.43" W x 9.56" (1.50 lbs) 384 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
How did the United States become not only the leading contemporary art scene in the world, but also the leading market for art? The answer has to do not only with the talents of American artists or even the size of the American economy, but also--and especially--the skills and
entrepreneurship of American art dealers. Their story has not been told...until now.
Landscape with Figures is the first history of art dealing in the United States, following the profession from eighteenth-century portrait and picture salesmen in the colonies to the high-profile, jet-set gallery owners of today. Providing anecdotal and carefully researched biographies of the
prominent dealers from more than two centuries of trade, author Malcolm Goldstein shows how magnanimous personalities and social networking helped to shape the way Americans have bought and valued art. These dealers range from Michael Paff, whose enthusiasm often overshadowed his expertise but
nonetheless helped him sell faux Old Master paintings to major collectors in the early nineteenth century; to the imperious Joseph Duveen, dealer to magnates like Henry Clay Frick; to visionary Leo Castelli, who helped to usher in a revolution in modern art during the 1960s by showing such
avant-garde artists as Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol. Goldstein also shows that the American art trade, while male-dominated, has been galvanized by female dealers, including the inimitable Edith Gregor Halpert, Peggy Guggenheim, and Mary Boone. Their fascinating stories
unfold in the context of world art history, the rise of major art institutions like the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum, and the growing zeal of artcollectors who would eventually pay millions for individual works of art.
Unprecedented and critical to understanding today's art world, Landscape with Figures is a must for artists, art history students, and art lovers.