The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art by Thompson, Don
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art by Thompson, Don

The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art

Why would a smart New York investment banker pay $12 million for the decaying, stuffed carcass of...
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Author: Don Thompson
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The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art by Thompson, Don

The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art

$226.78
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art by Thompson, Don

The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art

$226.78
Author: Don Thompson
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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.

Author: Don Thompson
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 04/13/2010
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.56w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9780230620599

About the Author
Don Thompson teaches marketing and economics in the MBA program at the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto. He has taught at the London School of Economics and at Harvard Business School. He lives in London and Toronto.
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