Auctions

Auctions
Author: Charles W. Smith
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1990-08-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780520072015

Smith tells how the straight capitalist economic law of supply and demand rarely governs the auction process, and how the beliefs and actions of the auction participants determine values.

The Sale of Misattributed Artworks and Antiques at Auction

The Sale of Misattributed Artworks and Antiques at Auction
Author: Anne Laure Bandle
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2016-10-28
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1786431017

The glamour and mystery of the art auction, gathering interested buyers from across the globe, makes it one of the most fascinating marketplaces in existence. ‘Sleepers’, artworks or antiques that have been undervalued and mislabelled due to an expert’s oversight and consequently undersold, appear regularly. This fascinating new book provides the first extensive study of the phenomenon of sleepers through an in-depth analysis of the contractual relationships, liability and remedies that arise in the context of auction sales.

The Dynamics of Auction

The Dynamics of Auction
Author: Christian Heath
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2013
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 0521767407

Addresses how social interaction forms the foundation to sale of art and antiques worth many billions of pounds each year.

The Afterlife of Used Things

The Afterlife of Used Things
Author: Ariane Fennetaux
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2014-10-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317744985

Recycling is not a concept that is usually applied to the eighteenth century. “The environment” may not have existed as a notion then, yet practices of re-use and transformation obviously shaped the early-modern world. Still, this period of booming commerce and exchange was also marked by scarcity and want. This book reveals the fascinating variety and ingenuity of recycling processes that may be observed in the commerce, crafts, literature, and medicine of the eighteenth century. Recycling is used as a thought-provoking means to revisit subjects such as consumption, the new science, or novel writing, and cast them in a new light where the waste of some becomes the luxury of others, clothes worn to rags are turned into paper and into books, and scientific breakthroughs are carried out in old kitchen pans.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Live Auctions

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Live Auctions
Author: The National Auctioneers Assoc
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2008-04-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1440636338

Do I hear $16.95? A $227.5 billion enterprise around the world, live auctions feature everything from cars to homes, fine art to coal. The only book of its kind, this guide will show how lucrative, fast-paced, and exciting this business is. It covers rules, lingo, setting up an auction, hiring professional auctioneers, and how the most popular auctions work. • 24% of U.S. consumers, or around 50 million people, spend an average of four hours at live auctions each year • Expert author: the National Association for Auctioneers • Detailed run-down of every aspect of live auctions • Resource section with auction house listings

Art Information and the Internet

Art Information and the Internet
Author: Lois Swan Jones
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2013-12-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1135933383

In the first book of its kind, art information expert Lois Swan Jones discusses how to locate visual and textual information on the Internet and how to evaluate and supplement that information with material from other formats--print sources, CD-ROMS, documentary videos, and microfiche sets--to produce excellent research results. The book is divided into three sections: Basic Information Formats; Types of Websites and How to Find Them; and How to Use Web Information. Jones discusses the strengths and limitations of Websites; scholarly and basic information resources are noted; and search strategies for finding pertinent Websites are included. Art Information and the Internet also discusses research methodology for studying art-historical styles, artists working in various media, individual works of art, and non-Western cultures--as well as art education, writing about art, problems of copyright, and issues concerning the buying and selling of art. This title will be periodically updated.

Auctions and Auctioneering

Auctions and Auctioneering
Author: Ralph Cassady Jr.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2023-04-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0520322258

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967.