Description
| Product ID: | 9781529081497 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Warhol After Warhol |
| Subtitle: | Power and Money in the Modern Art World |
| Authors: | Author: Richard Dorment |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Subjects: | Forgery, falsification and theft of artworks, Forgery, falsification & theft of artworks, History of art, Portraits and self-portraiture in art, True crime, Legal systems: civil procedure, litigation and dispute resolution, Art & design styles: Pop art, Portraits in art, True crime, Civil procedure, litigation & dispute resolution, 20th century |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating From the art critic of the Daily Telegraph, Warhol After Warhol tells the David-and-Goliath story of collector Joe Simon and his struggles with the Andy Warhol Authentication Board, a tale of power, corruption and lies, a Bad Blood for the art world. <p><b>Long-time art critic Richard Dorment reveals the corruption and lies of the art world and its mystifying authentication process.</b><br><br>Late one afternoon in the winter of 2003 art critic Richard Dorment answered a telephone call from a stranger. The caller was Joe Simon, an American film producer and art collector. He was ringing at the suggestion of David Hockney, his neighbour in Malibu. A committee of experts called the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board had declared the two Warhols in his collection to be fake. He wanted to know why and thought Dorment could help.<br><br>This call would mark the beginning of an extraordinary story that would play out over the next ten years and would involve a cast of characters straight out of fiction. From rock icons and film stars; art dealers and art forgers; to a murdered Russian oligarch and a lawyer for the mob; from courtrooms to auction houses: all took part in a bitter struggle to prove the authenticity of a series of paintings by the most famous American artist of the twentieth century.<br><br><b>Part detective story, part art history, part memoir, part courtroom drama, <i>Warhol After Warhol</i> is a spellbinding account of the dark connection between money, power and art.</b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-11-09 |
