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"Working with a data set accounting for 13,000 auction sales results, Anne-Sophie V. Radermecker explores what contemporary buyers value when purchasing paintings of unknown or uncertain authorship, and which variables influence price formation mechanisms in this market segment. The principle finding of this book is not only that historical names matter in the art market, but so do all other alternative identification strategies that art market players use to label anonymous paintings. Indirect names, provisional names, and spatiotemporal designations function as substitutes for real names that simulate identities, create ex-post stories around the artworks offered for sale, and, consequently, reduce information asymmetry about an artist's identity, with, at time, quite unexpected effects on price"--
In Anonymous Art at Auction, Anne-Sophie V. Radermecker takes the opposing view of the superstar economy by examining contemporary sales of Early Flemish paintings with unknown authorship and the effects of various substitutes for real names on price formation.
Artists Anonymous Catalogue for the exhibition 'Lucifer over London' at Riflemaker Gallery in 2009 Essay by J.J Charlesworth Reproductions and Installation views photographed by Gunter Lepkowski
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Explores the tension between an ancient culture's unbroken artistic tradition and the personality-driven world of contemporary art.
The Art Gallery Case' is the first graphic novel of a character called Private-eye Anonymous. Anonymous is wise cracking detective with a flair for ironic humour and a knack for finding trouble. He finds it easily enough an art gallery exhibiting valuable works of an artist called Van Gaur. The trouble actually Anonymous is hired to protect the paintings from art thieves, and things don't quite go as expected. With his sidekick and best buddy chiki, Anonymous must solve the Art Gallery Case before the suspects make good their plan of pulling off the con. The writing is humorous noir with a touch of ridiculous. The artwork yanks you into the dark alleys, moonlit nights and dramatic settings of Anonymous world. A tantalizing new flavour in the Indian graphic novel curry.
This exhibition presents ten artists who have worked since the 1990s with pieces straddling the realms of sculpture, video, and installation. Typically they combine projected images, technical appliance and concrete objects to form a spatial entity, and in this way stimulate art historical reflections on this subject. Some of the artists even regard certain of their works explicitly as video sculptures, and thus call for a reassessment of the borders between the genres.
Published to accompany a major exhibition of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot's paintings held in Paris and Ottawa during 1996, and forthcoming to New York. From nearly 3,000 paintings by this poetic 19th-century artist, the curators chose 163 works, which are reproduced here along with full art-historical discussions of each. Three major essays chronicle Corot's life and the development of his art; additional essays elucidate the subject of forgeries and describe the collecting of his works. Much original new scholarship is included along with a review of the scholarly literature, a concordance, and a chronology. 9.5x12.5"Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR