The $12 Million Stuffed Shark

唐•汤普森（Don Thompson）英国经济学家、商学教授，专精于市场营销、经济性规制、战略规划。目前执教于三所全球顶尖的经济学院：伦敦经济学院、哈佛商学院和加拿大约克大学的舒立克商学院。已出版有多本探讨市场营销与经济的书籍，被译成多国语言。

出版者:Palgrave Macmillan

作者:Don Thompson

页数:272

出版时间:2008-9-16

价格:USD 26.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780230610224

图书标签:艺术市场艺术艺术品收藏经济art思维auction英文原版

Why would a smart New York investment banker pay $12 million for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a shark? By what alchemy does Jackson Pollock’s drip painting No. 5, 1948 sell for $140 million? Intriguing and entertaining, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark is a Freakonomics approach to the economics and psychology of the contemporary art world. Why were record prices achieved at auction for works by 131 contemporary artists in 2006 alone, with astonishing new heights reached in 2007? Don Thompson explores the money, lust, and self-aggrandizement of the art world in an attempt to determine what makes a particular work valuable while others are ignored. This book is the first to look at the economics and the marketing strategies that enable the modern art market to generate such astronomical prices. Drawing on interviews with both past and present executives of auction houses and art dealerships, artists, and the buyers who move the market, Thompson launches the reader on a journey of discovery through the peculiar world of modern art. Surprising, passionate, gossipy, revelatory, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark reveals a great deal that even experienced auction purchasers do not know.

读后感

Definitely very informative. 前几章关于拍卖行的各种骚操作看得我云里雾里，真的挺复杂。不过整体来说take away是艺术与金钱的关系自艺术诞生的那天起就是一种复杂的entanglement，而在21世纪当financial market更加成熟同时wealth concentration也更加严重之后，这种机制变...  

Definitely very informative. 前几章关于拍卖行的各种骚操作看得我云里雾里，真的挺复杂。不过整体来说take away是艺术与金钱的关系自艺术诞生的那天起就是一种复杂的entanglement，而在21世纪当financial market更加成熟同时wealth concentration也更加严重之后，这种机制变...  

Venice Biennale, the oldest international exhibition of its kind, is considered to be one of the most prestigious platforms in international art scene. To Sarah Thornton, the author of Seven Days in the Art World, it is not only a "goliath exhibition that i...  

入手这本外文书，一是自己喜欢艺术品，二是熟悉熟悉英文。 原味的英文还是对胃口的，可毕竟和汉语读物不同，看了外文理解起来不难，但是记住看了什么事情不太容易。所以要一章一章的扎扎实实地看。 内容很丰富，只是开始对这些艺术品大亨不了解，看人名和现代艺术的作品很是...  

什么样的人会感兴趣这本书呢？我猜主要是想要了解艺术市场的人群吧，想要了解却不一定有直接的从业经验，对于这样的读者，推荐这本书。 正如读者本人所说，作者并非艺术从业者，而是经济学研究者，本书不是学术参考书，而是一本当代艺术市场深度游指南。没有理论框架去定性或者...  

用户评价

comprehensive. learned a ton

太实在了。

被书名吸引，没想到是一本非常不合格的方便面读物。可能是我对contemporary art态度本来就有些消极，不喜欢很多当代艺术作品过分追求的概念和呈现方式的创新，而丧失了最基本的本该真诚的探索和表达。

这书前半截浑身都是笑点啊噗哈哈哈哈哈哈！看书之前只写过一次当做paper的艺评就用了据说唯一对艺术家有过影响的Clement Greenberg，看来我不是太差啊哈哈哈。

这大概是一本讲真话的书。讲的是拍卖行，艺术品商人及其他行业比如对冲基金是如何把美国当代艺术品推向到这么高的价位的