The definitive guide on everything one needs to know about commissioning contemporary art In an age of blockbuster exhibitions and public art projects, the most exciting artworks are often those that have been specially commissioned for a specific site or event. This invaluable guide reveals and demystifies every stage of the commissioning process―from the initial invitation to an artist and the financing of a project to the final installation of works. Combining theoretical and conceptual considerations with practical ones, the text is supplemented with copious quotations and insights from some of the best-known artists, curators, commissioners, and museum directors of today. It is an essential guide for anyone involved in the process of commissioning new art―private collectors, foundations, public bodies, museums, galleries, and artists themselves―as well as those fascinated by the inner workings of the contemporary art world.

Commissioning Contemporary Art: A Handbook for Curators, Collectors and Artists

Arts & Photography

Buck, Louisa

McClean, Daniel

History & Criticism

Thames&Hudson

in what circumstances art is valued. Complementing a major six-part BBC TV series, this illustrated guide also examines ideas about artists, the art market, art collectors, and more, from around the world during various time periods.

Relative Values: Or What's Art Worth?

Dodd, Philip

Study & Teaching

Bbc Pubns

Why do we value art? In what ways do we assess its value? Why do we care so much about the signature of the artist on a painting? What relation does the financial value of a work of art bear to its aesthetic value? How are our perceptions of works of art influenced by viewing them in museums? These and other questions are answered in this book which spans past and present and travels the world to enquire into the nature of art. Accompanying a BBC television series, this book evaluates artists from Michelangelo to Andy Warhol, looks at museums from the Louvre to the Seibu department store's contemporary art gallery in Tokyo, considers the role of collectors from Lorenzo de Medici to Charles Saatchi and analyzes the way in which art is a source of wealth, power, prestige, beauty and even spirituality. This illustrated investigation into the way we value art aims to make us look afresh at the visual arts around us.

Relative values, or, What's art worth?

BBC Books

This sharp, practical look at the contemporary art market declares its irreverence early with a full-page, large print citation of Jenny Holzer's truism, "Money creates taste." Louisa Buck and Judith Greer's analyses of buyers' interests and responsibilities (including a section on how artists see the market and how collectors should treat them) make Owning Art a guidebook of interest to armchair travelers as well as its ostensible target market--it's not just collectors who seek to understand more about dealers, auction houses, art fairs, selection, pricing and conservation. The authors are equally comfortable going over the pitfalls of caring for contemporary media (they quote Agnes Gund on rescuing Christo's "Nine Packed Bottles" from a well-intentioned trip to the recycling bin), and tackling more serious questions like, who makes a good collector? What should you be looking for? Who gets offered the best work? What role do institutions play in the market?

Owning Art: The Contemporary Art Collector's Handbook

Greer, Judith

Cultureshock Media

Moving Targets: A User's Guide to British Art Now

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Tate Gallery Pubn

Britain's vibrant contemporary art scene continues to go from strength to strength. So who are its key players, most exciting venues, best publications and unmissable events? In this expanded and fully updated new edition of Louisa Buck's best-selling guide, she presents an opinionated and thorough survey of the artists and curators, collectors, organisations, galleries and publications that are generating the buzz around British art. For anyone interested in the current scene, this is an indispensable book.

Moving Targets 2: A User's Guide to British Art Now

Tate

Flying in the face of the good taste so amply displayed in the "little world of ceramics" that he detests, Grayson Perry's pots are shocking and thematically controversial. With their scratched-in surfaces that feature colored images ranging from quintessentially English floral patterns to transvestities to sexual and violent scenes, Perry's work tackles guilt and innocence, perversion and hypocrisy, aggression and violence, sexuality and gender--a far cry from the subject matters usually dealt with in the British arts and crafts world. Presented in the format of an album, this monograph offers intriguing insight into the world that Grayson creates in drawings, embroidery, photography, and, most especially, ceramic pots.

Grayson Perry

WILSON, ANDREW

Individual Artists

NAi Publishers/Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

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