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- Title: Beautiful Inside My Head Forever (Money)
- Author : Art Monthly
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 48 KB
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'The fine artist came to seem a near-miraculous creator of value, transmuting relatively inexpensive materials into fabulously expensive commodities.' Katy Siegel and Paul Mattick's comment on the development of today's art market-place, in the introduction to their book, Art Works: Money (Thames and Hudson, 2004), refers to the changing social and economic perception of the artist in the then developed world during the 17th and 18th Centuries. It is also an appropriate starting point for considering Damien Hirst's mould-breaking decision to spend 18 months making numerous new works specifically for sale at auction by Sotheby's in London last September, when some 218 of the 223 lots were sold at one evening and two daytime sessions (some of those unsold were bought privately). The sales attracted a record number of preview visitors to an auction; 39% of the buyers made their first contemporary art purchases, 24% of whom were new clients for Sotheby's. Total sales were 111.4m [pounds sterling]. 'Beautiful Inside My Head Forever' was the brand name Hirst gave to the whole project.
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