Tales from the art crypt
the painters, the museums, the curators, the collectors, the auctions, the art
by Richard L. Feigen
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"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.
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Art, Biography, Anecdotes, Painters, Art dealers, Richard L. Feigen & Company, Collectors and collecting, Art museums, Art museum curators, Art auctionsPeople
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Tales from the art crypt: the painters, the museums, the curators, the collectors, the auctions, the art
2000, Alfred A. Knopf
in English
039457169X 9780394571690
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]).
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