📗 Libro en inglés BREAKFAST AT SOTHEBYS

Breakfast at Sotheby s is a wry intimate truly revealing exploration of how art acquires its financial value from Philip Hook a senior director at Sotheby s Reading it is like participating in a hugely enjoyable personal tutorial given by a cultured witty clear eyed world teacher with a fully functioning sense of humour A real delight Spectator Hook s view of the art world is that of the professional auctioneer In an A Z format it is an entire art education contained in under 350 pages Wry dry and completely beguiling William Boyd Guardian Books of the Year How to nail the mad bad crazy contemporary art world in print Sotheby s senior director Hook draws on 35 years experience in this informal memoir He unravels with humour piquancy and erudition what drives the economics of taste Financial Times Books of the Year It s very hard to write an amusing book about art that has some serious things to say But Philip Hook has done it Sunday Times Books of the Year An auctioneer s alphabet of quirky reflections and off beat lists such as middle brow artists and fictional artists an ideal volume for the art lover s bedside Martin Gayford Spectator Books of the Year His delightful Breakfast at Sotheby s