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This groundbreaking text brings together experts in the field of visual art markets to answer some fundamental questions: Is art a good investment? Why is the art market dominated by America and Western Europe? Where are the key emerging markets and what are the next good buys in art? Providing readers with an understanding of the challenges facing art market "makers" (dealers, auctioneers, collectors and artists) and the decision making process experienced by market "players" and investors, this exciting text merges the key theories with examples of practice in a highly accessible style. Written by an international array of experts from the US, the UK and China, this book is essential reading for all those studying or interested in art markets and management.
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insightful and interesting.......2007-01-13
This book is a gem. Even for the people who don't know much about the art market, it's still a book worthwhile reading. The writing is very polished, yet easy to follow; the information is in depth. There are a lot of books on Art History; but this is the book on Art Market History with the most comprehensive analysis of economic, political and social impacts on art, artists and art market. The humor and sarcasm in the book make the reading fun. If you enjoy philosophy, politics and history or art critics, this is a great book to have.
A good introduction of the arts market.......2006-09-17
Iain Robertson et al. is presenting this very sound introduction to the non-expert of the arts international market. It is a collection of articles from different authors; therefore expect a non-linear writing style, which is however easy to understand. It is written from the point of view of the curator, or of someone who stands outside the market as an observer. What one could find as missing, are other perspectives such as the artist themselves. Nevertheless, this book discusses a very wide range of the arts market and even includes chapters such as art crime. The reader can thus easily gain a very good (though theoretical) insight of how the arts market works and of who are the actors in the market.
Five stars are awarded for this book, as I would recommend this book to all those who have an interest in learning how the arts market works and as this book delivers.
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What makes the difference between your collaboration's failure or success? Collaboration: What Makes It Work, Second Edition answers this question with an up-to-date and in-depth review of collaboration research. This new edition also includes The Wilder Collaboration Factors Inventory.
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Chuck Close--a man who describes himself as "an artist looking for trouble"--has for three decades consistently but variously challenged the accepted boundaries of the printmaking tradition. Published to accompany a retrospective of his prints opening at Blaffer Gallery and traveling to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and several additional museums around the country, this is the first comprehensive survey of Close's revolutionary prints.
Featuring exquisite reproductions of the prints together with essays on Close's career and in-depth interviews with the artist and his master printmakers, the volume blends words and images to give readers unique insight into the creative process. The text highlights the intensely collaborative nature of Close's project and looks into the challenges posed by the unprecedented huge scale he prefers. Close may labor on a single print for as long as two years, working out aesthetic problems that might involve the retrieval of a centuries-old European method on one day and the creation of an entirely new technique (such as applying sunscreen to block light) the next. "Prints have moved me in my unique work more than anything else has," Close says. "Prints change the way I think about things."
From the artist's ambitious first mezzotint to his recent pulp-paper multiples, this book chronicles the genius of Chuck Close in the medium in which he has done his most exciting work. Taken together, these prints constitute a remarkable self-portrait of the creative drive, vision, and intellect of one of America's most important living artists.
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston
September 13-November 23, 2003
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
January 13-April 18, 2004
Miami Art Museum, Florida
May 14-August 22, 2004
Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee
October 29, 2004-March 27, 2005
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina
April 16-August 7, 2005
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
September 6-December 4, 2005
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
April 16-June 28, 2006
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art in Madison, Wisconsin
July 29 - October 6, 2006
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
January 28-April 20, 2007
Boise Art Museum, Idaho
May 12-August 11, 2007
Portland Art Museum, Oregon
September-December 2007
Customer Reviews:
photos are good .......2006-07-16
The illustrations of this book are very good for understanding the works of the artist and the process as well.
One of the greatest art books ever published.......2006-04-21
The first reviewer here is nuts. This is a book that was released when Chuck Close had a retrospective on his prints. This book has info on the prints and no paintings. what is great about 'Process and Collaboration' is the fact that it delves so deeply into Closes working habbits and how he pretty much invents his process from one small series of works to the next.
This book gave me a huge boost in my appreciation for Close. I liked him before, but this added so much depth to my understanding of him as an artist. I now feel as though Close is as complicated as any other artist that I have knowledge of. Even though he has built a long and vibrant legacy based on nothing more than close-up head shots. This is a must have book and I only wish that every artists retrospective went into a similar amount of detail.
This book is ok, but for most fans probably not.......2004-05-24
This book as described is about the prints, and talks very little about the paintings. There are very nice and clear pictures, but I really only found a few pages interesting, and the rest was just like one long interview about the materials he used and the stories behind who chipped what woodblock and how it got done, etc. Maybe some people will like this book but I only found it slightly interesting.
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Robust Weapon Simulations Hinge on Close Collaboration.(use of simulation-based acquisition to sell weapons to military): An article from: National Defense
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Title: Robust Weapon Simulations Hinge on Close Collaboration.(use of simulation-based acquisition to sell weapons to military)
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This inventory is a practical tool for discovering how your collaboration is doing on the twenty factors that research has shown influence success (see Collaboration: What Makes It Work).
The inventory takes about fifteen minutes to complete. It can be distributed to a small group of leaders in the collaborative, during a general meeting, or via mail to all members for the most complete picture. You can tally your score manually or online.
The tool includes complete instructions for administering, scoring, and interpreting the results, plus a definition of collaboration and descriptions of the twenty success factors.
Groups that are considering collaboration can use it to see if they have what they need to succeed. They can then act quickly to shore up weaknesses and capitalize on strengths—before formalizing the collaboration, or in its early stages.
Established collaborations can use the inventory to troubleshoot problems, demonstrate successes to funders, and uncover differences in how participating organizations perceive the collaboration.
Consultants to collaborations can use the tool to help the collaboration assess itself and to intervene for the most effective results.
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My Dad's Footsteps is the companion book to Where Does a Mom's Love Go? and is dedicated to the children who lost Dads on September 11. It is a story of the bond between a Dad and his child - the love, the laughter, the loss, and finally, the learning to live without that very special person. The week of Father's Day, over 1,000 books were shipped to the New York locations of The Salvation Army for distribution to children who lost their Dads that terrible day in September.
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Remembering Dad.......2004-04-09
Rebeccasreads highly recommends MY DAD'S FOOTSTEPS for those children who have suffered the loss of their Dads. It's touching & dreamy, funny & achingly joyful.
For everyone faced with only being able to remember their Dad & coping with the sorrow, & always for remembering.
As with all Patti Lynn Bongiorno's books, MY DAD'S FOOTSTEPS is to be treasured.
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If I didn't think it deserved a 5, I wouldn't keep buying them.......2007-01-04
This is a great series. Violent manga is not usually my bag, but Samura makes it so darn beautiful. I was lured by the art, but got hooked on the characters. It's pulp fiction in feudal Japan. It's a good read with plenty of spreads to really linger on and soak up. I'm a little disturbed by some of it but it's intoxicating at the same time. It's the cliche of the Train Wreck. Read it once and you'll know what I mean.
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Fans of Eats, ShootsandLeaveswill delight in this collection-from one of America's favorite grammarians F or those who sigh in despair when they read e-mails full of more dashes than a 100-meter heat at the Olympics, who suffer from an acute case of crampersand, or experience severe colonic distress, here's a dash of good 'ol pun-ctuational medicine from Richard Lederer, grammarian and beloved author of the Anguished Englishseries, and humor writer John Shore. Featuring: -A chapter devoted to each of the major punctuation marks -Light, simple, and fun advice that readers will actually want to use -American-style punctuation -An author Americans have come to love and trust as the foremost authority (and wit) on the English language.
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Comma Sense.......2007-08-03
I have not finished reading the book, but from what I have read of it, it is well written and meets a great need.
Prodigious Punctuation.......2006-10-27
Oh yeah, I went looking specifically for expertise in your area of skill and found you by careful search. I'm HAPPY about finding your book as it contains everything I need ... I expect perfection of myself. Imagine an Editor getting material from me with punctuation errors ... ugh! I believe, by using "Common Sense" I'll gain a little more power with my literature.
Many thanks,
Larry
Buy it , you'll like it........2006-05-06
This is the unique book that has you mentally tallying up your friend's birthdays before you get to the last chapter (lets see... I can buy it for Ken, and Susie, and my daughter so she won't dog-ear my copy...). I picked this up for an educationally boring read that would knock me out at bedtime and instead found myself staying up most of the night laughing. Comma Sense is the darndest, funniest, wittiest educational book I've ever read. You can't help but learn something... it sort of seeps into your brain while you're distracted with a mental picture of what the Andrew Sisters would look like if viewed from above (yes, of COURSE they would look like...well, read Chapter 13 and you'll find out). I would write more, but I have to rush out now and buy extra copies for everyone I know.
Not just another book on punctuation.......2006-01-04
Not just another book on punctuation! What can Comma Sense: A Fundamental Guide To Punctuation hold over its many competitors? 'Fun' is the operative word here, as Richard Lederer and John Shore poke fun at the misuse of punctuation and how choices in punctuation can have very different results. Plenty of examples come couched in this humor, which makes Comma Sense quite easy to learn. Just consider that here the exclamation point is the 'titan of tingle, the prince of palpitation' and you have some idea of the allure of Comma Sense - and its potential of educating those who traditionally wouldn't touch grammar books with a ten-foot pole.
Shirley Temple Was a Half-Pint........2005-11-19
Written by a couple of English majors, for the fun of it, I just have to wonder why this little book would cost so much. They poke fun at punctuation, as we know it in America, which I am sure will thoroughly confuse those who speak other languages to wonder what on earth is going on! But, that's the fun of it!
This is all about writing, and writing is about expressing thoughts and feelings (also opinions). This instruction booklet will show you which punctuation mark to use to get your point across, and to be understood to your best potential. I was best at grammar in high school, went on to literature in college where I married my lit. (and speech) teacher [one and the same.] I thought I knew it all, as other college English teachers told me they had never heard me make a grammatical error. But, as with all the books I choose, I learned about the "ellipsis" which I have never used and reminded me of the brackets, which I am not sure I learned in the first place.
John Shore is the editor who loves to mark. I once typed into the computer a "Self Study" for a vocational school, and the English teacher on the committee told me she got out her red marker to circle all the errors, but in the sections I put together, she could find none to circle. That was the greatest compliment! Richard Lederer is the language expert, having written a humungous amount of books on English in all its forms: puns, words, games, verbal skills, and miracles of....
If you know English already, they will teach you when and how to use the apostrophe, colon, semicolon, comma, dash, exclamation point, hyphen, paragraph, parentheses, question mark, quotation mark, and the new ones, brackets and ellipsis. For instance, "within a quotation, use brackets to insert a missing or explanatory word or comment." "***Use an ellipsis to indicate the intentional omission of one or more words within a sentence." This might be confusing to non-English speakers, as both involved missing words. Where'd they go? Do the words exist and just have gotten lost, or did the writer intend not to use those words anyway?
They give a funny use of the hyphen, how the wrong placement at the end of a line can make completely different words. The best way to avoid that is to justify your typewritten work. It makes the margins level and nothing is hyphenated. From one English perfectionist to another, I wish the self-appointed grammar expert in the local newspaper could see this delightful book. He could learn a thing or two, maybe several, as he thinks differently from the way I was taught. By the way, he avoids me in public!
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