Warhol After Warhol
Power and Money in the Modern Art World
$57.00
- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
30 April 2024
Summary
Long-time art critic Richard Dorment reveals the corruption and lies of the art world and its mystifying authentication process.
Late one afternoon in the winter of 2003, art critic Richard Dorment answered a telephone call from a stranger. The caller was Joe Simon, an American film producer and art collector. He was ringing at the suggestion of David Hockney, his neighbour in Malibu. A committee of experts called the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board had declared the two Warhols i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529081497 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529081491 |
| Author: | Richard Dorment |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 30 April 2024 |
| Weight: | 401g |
| Dimensions: | 31mm x 144mm x 224mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
Art critic Richard Dorment brings to vivid and fearsome life the characters in a protracted and hugely expensive legal battle over the authenticity of a Warhol print * The Observer *
A pacy legal thriller, packed with a colourful cast of characters * The Telegraph *
In lucid prose, Dorment distils ideas that have dominated art theory for decades … The tale could easily have been arcane and legalistic in the telling, but Dorment disentangles the thicket of names, emails, off-the-cuff remarks, snatches of gossip and deposition transcripts with mastery * The Spectator *
Funny, erudite and knowledgeable, Dorment enlivens what, by his own admission, is “an esoteric dispute on a rarefied subject” … This book feels germane to our cultural moment * Financial TImes *
Richard Dorment
Richard Dorment has had a distinguished career as historian, scholar, journalist and exhibition curator. He was the Chief Art Critic at the Daily Telegraph from 1986 until his retirement in 2015. Among his many publications are catalogues of exhibitions that have been seen in London, Paris and Washington DC. A frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, his work has appeared in the Burlington Magazine, the Times Literary Supplement, and Literary Review. In 2014 he was awarded a CBE for Services to the Arts.
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