The Ultimate Trophy: How Impressionist Painting Conquered the World by Philip Hook
8vo. pp. 224. b/w & colour illustrations. bibliography. index. hardcover. dw. Munich: Prestel, [2009].
New.
ISBN-10: 3791339710 / ISBN-13: 9783791339719
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Starting with its shocking novelty and confounding style, Philip Hook traces the impact of the Impressionist painting as it spread to Germany, America, Great Britain and Japan, polarizing modernists and conservatives. Drawn from the author's own experiences with art collectors and dealers, this fascinating chapter in art history is narrated through the lens of today's art market.