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The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art
Don Thompson
St. Martin's Griffin
2010
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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 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.
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Don Thompson was born in Bakersfield, CA, in 1942, and has spent most of his life in Kern County. He has been publishing poetry since the early sixties, including over a dozen books and chapbooks. Back Roads won the 2008 Sunken Garden Prize. He was the subject of an LA Times profile, "Planted in the San Joaquin." More recently, A San Joaquin Almanac won the Eric Hoffer Award for chapbooks in 2021. He and his wife, Chris, live on her family's farm near Buttonwillow in a house that has been home to four generations. In 2016 he was selected as the first Poet Laureate of Kern County.
Within forty-eight hours in the fall of 2014, buyers in the Sotheby's and Christie's New York auction houses spent $1.7 billion on contemporary art. Non-taxed freeport warehouses around the globe are stacked with art held for speculation. One of Jeff Koons' five chromium-plated stainless steel balloon dogs sold for 50 percent more at auction than the previous record for any living artist. A painting by Christopher Wool, featuring four lines from a Francis Ford Coppola movie stenciled in black-on-a-white background, sold for $28 million. In The Orange Balloon Dog, economist and bestselling author Don Thompson cites these and other fascinating examples to explore the sometimes baffling activities of the high-end contemporary art market. He examines what is at play in the exchange of vast amounts of money and what nudges buyers, even on the subconscious level, to imbue a creation with such high commercial value. Thompson analyzes the behaviors of buyers and sellers and delves into the competitions that define and alter the value of art in today's international market, from New York to London, Singapore to Beijing. Take heed if your millions are tied up in stainless steel balloon dogs--Thompson also warns of a looming bust of the contemporary art price balloon.
Why would a smart New York investment banker pay twelve million dollars for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a shark?
Don Thompson is a native of the southern San Joaquin Valley where he has lived most of his life, writing about its unique environment. In From Here On: Four Sunday Drives, he revives an old tradition, documenting road trips to nearby farmland, the foothills, and to the Sierras. Thompson reflects on the passing of time and the deterioration and abuse of the land. Even in the outlying areas reached only on back roads, there is evidence of vandalism and violence. And yet the landscape he loves somehow endures.
Chuchelo akuly za $12 millionov. Prodano! Vsja pravda o rynke sovremennogo iskusstva
Don Thompson
Azbooka
2023
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Pereskazyvaja i analiziruja kureznye, porazitelnye, shokirujuschie podrobnosti, kotorymi tak bogata istorija sozdanija i kommercheskogo uspekha samykh znamenitykh i samykh dorogikh proizvedenij sovremennogo iskusstva, uchenyj-ekonomist Donald Tompson vystraivaet povestvovanie, kotoroe s pervoj do poslednej stranitsy derzhit v naprjazhenii ne khuzhe inogo detektivnogo romana. No ne stanem speshit s otsenkami - v dannom sluchae pered nami otnjud ne banalnyj sbornik anekdotov iz povsednevnoj zhizni bogemy. Kniga Tompsona - odno iz luchshikh, po mneniju kritikov, issledovanij rynka sovremennogo iskusstva. Uvlekaja vnimanie chitatelja skandalnymi istorijami gromkikh prodazh, poputno avtor raskryvaet sami printsipy funktsionirovanija art-biznesa, obychno skrytogo ot glaz prostykh smertnykh. Kniga Tompsona - unikalnaja vozmozhnost proniknut v zakulise mira auktsionov i art-marketov, dilerov i galeristov, khudozhnikov, chi gonorary ischisljajutsja semiznachnymi tsiframi, i tekh, kto lish karabkaetsja k vershine, - togo mira, gde iskusstvo pojavljaetsja na svet i gde ono obretaet tsenu. Publikuetsja v novom perevode.