Fine Art and High Finance: Expert Advice on the Economics of Ownership: 36 (Bloomberg) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1576603334 ISBN 13: 9781576603338

Publisher: Bloomberg Press, 2010

Synopsis

For art investors, artists, and collectors, McAndrew, a cultural economist, investment analyst, and art economy consultant who lectures at Sotheby's Institute of Art in Singapore and the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, compiles 12 chapters that examine the key economic issues unique to the international art market. Focusing on fine and decorative art, a group of European and North American legal, financial, and art industry specialists discuss how fine art is bought and sold, the relationship between supply and demand, art's subjective and financial value, art appraisal and price data, the development of art funds in the market, government regulation, tax issues, art banking, insurance, risk analysis, conservation and restoration, and the illegal art trade. Annotation 2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews)

About this title

Book Description:

fine art and high finance provides a comprehensive review of the economic aspects of art ownership - including appraisals and valuations, taxation, investing in art funds and the black-market art trade.

About the Author:

Clare McAndrew is editor of Wealth magazine and is recognised as a leading expert on the economics of art ownership. She was chief economist at Kusin and Company - an institutional economic research firm in the US, specialising in art investment - and has worked as a consultant on art projects for organizations in Ireland and the UK. She has a PhD in Economics from Trinity College Dublin and is the author of The Art Economy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomberg Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1576603334
• ISBN 13: 9781576603338
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: McAndrew Clare