The $12 Million Stuffed Shark
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark Why would a smart New York investment banker pay $12 million for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a shark? 5, 1948 sell for $140 million?Intriguing and entertaining, The…
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The $12 Million Stuffed Shark
Why would a smart New York investment banker pay $12 million for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a shark? 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. By what alchemy does Jackson Pollock's drip painting No.
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. Why were record prices achieved at auction for works by 131 contemporary artists in 2006 alone, with astonishing new heights reached in 2007? Drawing on interviews with past and present