{"product_id":"9781468310306","title":"Breakfast at Sotheby's: An A-Z of the Art Word","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen you stand in front of a work of art in a museum or exhibition, the first two questions you normally ask yourself are 1) Do I like it? and 2) Who’s it by?\u003c\/p\u003e When you stand in front of a work of art in an auction room or dealer’s gallery, you ask these two questions followed by others: How much is it worth? How much will it be worth in five or ten years’ time? And what will people think of me if they see it hanging on my wall?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cem\u003eBreakfast at Sotheby’s\u003c\/em\u003e is an alphabetical guide to how people reach answers to such questions, and how in the process art is given a financial value. Based on Philip Hook’s thirty-five years’ experience of the art market, \u003cem\u003eBreakfast at Sotheby’s\u003c\/em\u003e explores the artist and his hinterland (including definitions for -isms, middle-brow artists, Gericault, and suicides), subject and style (from abstract art and banality through surrealism and war), “wall-power,” provenance, and market weather.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   Comic, revealing, piquant, splendid, and occasionally absurd, \u003cem\u003eBreakfast at Sotheby’s\u003c\/em\u003e is a book of pleasure and intelligent observation, as engaged with art as it is with the world that surrounds it.","brand":"ABRAMS, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129443762416,"sku":"9781468310306","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781468310306_p0.jpg?v=1769892740","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781468310306","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}