{"product_id":"rogues-gallery-a-history-of-art-and-its-dealers-9781781255704","title":"Rogues' Gallery: A History of Art and its Dealers","description":"\u003cp\u003ePhilip Hook takes the lid off the world of art dealing to reveal the brilliance  cunning  greed and daring of its practitioners. In a richly anecdotal narrative he describes the rise and occasional fall of the extraordinary men and women who over the centuries have made it their business to sell art to kings  merchants  nobles  entrepreneurs and museums.  From its beginnings in Antwerp  where paintings were sometimes sold by weight  to the rich hauteur of the contemporary gallery in London  Paris and New York  art dealing has been about identifying what is intangible but infinitely desirable  and then finding clients for whom it is irresistible. Those who have purveyed art for a living range from tailors  spies and the occasional anarchist to scholars  aristocrats  merchants and connoisseurs  each variously motivated by greed  belief in their own vision of art and its history  or simply the will to win.  The cast of characters includes Paul Durand-Ruel  the Impressionists champion; Herwath Walden  who first brought Modernism into the limelight; Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler  high priest of Cubism; Leo Castelli  dealer-midwife to Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art; and Peter Wilson  the charismatic Sothebys chairman who made the auction room theatre.  Philip Hooks history is one of human folly  greed and duplicity  interspersed with ingenuity  inspiration and acts of heroism. Rogues Gallery is learned  witty and irresistibly readable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44938358456373,"sku":"ByrdShop_1781255709","price":99.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781781255704.jpg?v=1787602547","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/rogues-gallery-a-history-of-art-and-its-dealers-9781781255704","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}