This is the first sourcebook to trace the emergence and evolution of art markets in the Western economy, framing them within the larger narrative of the ascenda

The meteoric rise of the largest unregulated financial market in the world -- for contemporary art -- is driven by a few passionate, guileful, and very hard-nos

This book describes the collisions between the art world and the law, with a critical eye through a combination of primary source materials, excerpts from profe