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Extraordinary Art Dealers: Stories of Obsession, Innovation and Creativity brings together 30 essays on 30 art dealers, from accounts of crafty opportunists and commercially driven moguls to tales of soulful idealism, exceptional talent and relentless creativity. Featuring art dealers from the eighteenth to mid-twentieth century, the book explores their varied roles as cultural architects, eccentric idealists, commercially driven salespeople, and everything in-between. Highlighting the unexpected creativity of art dealers, their exceptional sensitivity to new art, and the impact they’ve had on shaping the art world, the book challenges the widespread notion that dealers are solely profit-driven. Organised into six chapters, Extraordinary Art Dealers offers fresh insights into the often-overlooked role of art dealers in art history – key players in cultivating the canon of art as we know it. By delving into the past, exploring the profession of art dealing as continually evolving in parallel with the changing positioning of the role of art in society, this publication sheds light on the mechanics of dealing today – from the artist-centric approach to the economically driven and personality-motivated.  Illustrated throughout, Extraordinary Art Dealers is perfect for the cultural junkies, fine art and art history students, artists and aspiring or existing art dealers. Including chapters on William Hogarth, Joseph Duveen, Betty Parsons, Robert Fraser, Leo Castelli, Alfred Stieglitz, Virginia Dwan, Kekoo and Khorshed Gandhy, Malick Sidibé, Peggy Guggenheim and many more...

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Catherine Ingram (Ph.D., Oxford) is a writer and art historian, who has lectured for the Tate, Christie’s, Imperial College London, and Magdalen College, Oxford. She conceived of and edited the illustrated art history series, This is, published by Laurence King Publishing, also writing four of the titles. The series won the Brand/Series Identity Award at the British Book Design and Production Awards in 2015 and several titles were nominated for the V&A Illustration Awards. This is Dalí, This is Pollock and This is Warhol also featured in The Guardian’s best graphic books of 2014. Celyn Brazier is an animation director & art director for Bernstein & Andriulli and Nexus Studios, as well an editorial illustrator, working with national newspaper publications in the UK and abroad. His clients have included Financial Times, Fortune, The Guardian, The New Yorker, The New York Times and Washington Post, as well as Bartle Bogle and Hegarty, British Airways, Dow Jones, Honda, Kew Gardens, Le Monde, London Wildlife Trust, McCann, MIT, Mother, Oglivy & Mather, Saatchi & Saatchi, Toyota, World Wildlife Fund and Waitrose.

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