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Title: Tales from the Art Crypt : The painters, the museums, the curators, the collectors, theauctions, the art by RICHARD FEIGEN ISBN: 0-394-57169-X Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 20 June, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.3 (10 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Worthy criticism
Comment: I found Richard Feigen's book to be a mostly worthy criticism of the current art world. I am the son of Sam Salz who is mentioned in a short passage in the book as a legendary art dealer. I think Mr.Feigen's description of his method of dealing is accurate eventhough my father's german-jewish accent is slightly overdone. My father may have been a shrewd and sometimes ruthless negotiator but he always saught a good home for "his pictures" and could judge a great one from a "postage stamp". The rest of the book deals very well with the gradual takeover of large corporate interests in the museums. Sometimes Mr. Feigen has a tendency to portray himself a the sole saviour in a corrupt system but more than a few of his shots are right on target.
Rating: 1
Summary: Yawn
Comment: Feigen does a wonderful job of tooting his own horn and bashing the hard-earned reputations of others. The subtitle of the book: "The Painters, the Museums, the Curators, the Collectors, the Auctions, the Art" should have read "ME, ME, ME, ME, ME, ME". There a few useful or interesting tidbits of information buried in the book, but the challenge is staying awake long enough to unearth them.
Rating: 3
Summary: A Lively Tale
Comment: In this account of his many years as one of New York's most prominent art dealers, Richard Feigen offers readers a personal and engaging view of the art world's past and the many issues it faces in the present.
The difficulty with Mr. Feigen's book is that fails to approach these issues in an intellectually engaged and balanced manner. Though he presents delighful, and at times humourous accounts of his relationships with several prominent collectors, Feigen then proceeds to mow down most of the museum directors of the last thirty years and several very influential and erudite academics. He also glosses over important details and omits others, presenting a one-sided, opinionated view of many events that in reality were much more complicated. In his account of the "Boston Massacre," for example, he does not address concerns that many of the curators fired were uncooperative, unproductive, or both.
Though the book's organization obscures its thesis somewhat, it appears that Feigen envisions a return to an era in which museums functioned as private clubs for the independently wealthy and art historians were chiefly concerned with objects' formal qualities. This hardly seems like a desirable goal and ignores the many financial and legal issues that face the modern museum. In the end, the reader is disappointed that Feigen was unable to provide a more thoughtful and productive contribution.
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Title: The Art Dealers: The Powers Behind the Scene Tell How the Art World Really Works by Laura De Coppet, Alan Jones, Laura De Coppet ISBN: 0815412452 Publisher: Cooper Square Press Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: False Impressions by Thomas Hoving ISBN: 0684831481 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 08 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: The Passionate Collector: Eighty Years in the World of Art by Roy R. Neuberger ISBN: 0471273430 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 13 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: The Business of Art by Lee Evan Caplin, Tom Power, National Endowment for the Arts, Livingston L. Biddle ISBN: 0735200130 Publisher: Prentice Hall Press Pub. Date: 08 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: True Colors: The Real Life of the Art World by Anthony Haden-Guest ISBN: 0871137259 Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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