This book scrutinizes the Excesses and extravagances that the 21st-Century explosion of the contemporary art Market brought in its wake.
Drawing on a series of tenaciously wrought interviews with artists, colle.
The buying of art as an investment, temptations to forgery and fraud, tax evasion, money laundering and pressure to produce more and more art all form part of this story, as do the upheavals in auction houses and the impact of the enhanced use of financial instruments on art transactions.
This book scrutinizes the Excesses and extravagances that the 21st-Century explosion of the contemporary art Market brought in its wake