Dollar Dreaming. Inside The Aboriginal Art World

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
Publisher Place: South Yarra
Publisher Year: 2008
Edition: First Edition

Description: 231 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Dollar Dreaming : Inside the Aboriginal Art World explores how aboriginal art has become the newly minted coin in the international art market. In the pursuit of the story, art critic Benjamin Genocchio travels to interview the very people living through this extraordinary period of evolution - artists, dealers, curators, collectors, and auction house staff - to convey through their words and experiences how the art form, and the international market for Aboriginal art, has come to life. His journey takes us to the heart of Australia to some of the most remote outback communities, then across the globe to the art auction houses of New York. Revealed is how the worlds oldest continuous art has evolved and attracted international attention. Dollar Dreaming is an authoritative and engaging account of the Aboriginal art world today by one of Australias most successful art critics. Author Biography: Benjamin Genocchio, former chief art critic for The Australian, lives in New York where he writes on art for The New York Times. He is the author and editor of three other books, most recently an anthology of art criticism.

ISBN: 9781740666091