Dealing Art on Both Sides of the Atlantic, 1860-1940.

Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- The Artist as Dealer -- Chapter 2 The Many Hats of Mary Cassatt: Artist, Advisor, Broker, Tastemaker -- Chapter 3 The Misses Williams in Salem and Rome -- Dealers Shaping and Influencing Taste -- Chapter 4 "A Public-Spirited Merchant" Samuel P. Avery, Art Dealer, Advisor, Philanthropist -- Chapter 5 Dealing with Cubism: Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler's Perilous Internationalism -- Supply Created by Dealer -- Chapter 6 Charles Mather Ffoulke and the Market for Tapestries in Late Nineteenth-Century America -- Chapter 7 The Art Dealer and the Devil: Remarks on the Relationship of Elia Volpi and Wilhelm von Bode -- Demand Created by Dealers -- Chapter 8 An Imaginary Italy on the Shores of Florida: Paul Chalfin, Vizcaya and the International Market for Italian Decorative Arts in 1910s -- Chapter 9 Selling French Modern Art on the American Market: César de Hauke as Agent of Jacques Seligmann &amp -- Co., 1925-1940 -- The Role of Photographs in the Selling of Art -- Chapter 10 Stefano Bardini and C.F. Walker, His London Agent -- Chapter 11 Surrogates and Intermediaries: The Informational Role of Photographs in the Art Market -- The Bureaucratic Network -- Chapter 12 A Lesson in Loopholes: Stefano Bardini, and the Export of the Botticelli Frescoes from Villa Lemmi -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Index.

Dealing Art on Both Sides of the Atlantic, 1860-1940 aims to bring the marketplace dynamic into sharper focus by examining the functionaries who participate in the art market-agents, scouts, intermediaries, restorers, fakers, decorators, advisers and experts.

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