Whitfield, Orlando (Autor)
All That Glitters
A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art: Shortlisted for the 2024 Nero Book Awards
Beschreibung
A 2024 Book of the Year pick in the Economist, Independent, Prospect, Apollo, New Yorker and at Waterstones
A 2024 Summer Read in the Economist, Telegraph, Guardian, New Yorker, i, and the Evening Standard
'My favourite book of 2024... A masterclass of a book' Brandon Taylor
'An art world Great Gatsby, deliciously withering and dishy.' Patrick Radden Keefe
'Orlando Whitfield [is a] really good writer with crazy stories to tell' Hanif Kureishi
DECEPTION IS A FINE ART. When Orlando Whitfield first meets Inigo Philbrick, they are students dreaming of dealing art for a living. Their friendship lasts for fifteen years until one day, Inigo - by then the most successful dealer of his generation - suddenly disappears, accused of a fraud so gigantic and audacious it rocks the art world to its core.
A sparklingly sharp memoir of greed, ambition and madness, All That Glitters will take you to the heart of the contemporary art world, a place wilder and wealthier than you could ever imagine.
'Explosive... the inside story of the biggest art fraud in American history' Guardian
'Liar's Poker, but for art' Economist
A 2024 Summer Read in the Economist, Telegraph, Guardian, New Yorker, i, and the Evening Standard
'My favourite book of 2024... A masterclass of a book' Brandon Taylor
'An art world Great Gatsby, deliciously withering and dishy.' Patrick Radden Keefe
'Orlando Whitfield [is a] really good writer with crazy stories to tell' Hanif Kureishi
DECEPTION IS A FINE ART. When Orlando Whitfield first meets Inigo Philbrick, they are students dreaming of dealing art for a living. Their friendship lasts for fifteen years until one day, Inigo - by then the most successful dealer of his generation - suddenly disappears, accused of a fraud so gigantic and audacious it rocks the art world to its core.
A sparklingly sharp memoir of greed, ambition and madness, All That Glitters will take you to the heart of the contemporary art world, a place wilder and wealthier than you could ever imagine.
'Explosive... the inside story of the biggest art fraud in American history' Guardian
'Liar's Poker, but for art' Economist
Produktdetails
| ISBN/GTIN | 978-1-78816-996-7 |
|---|---|
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2025 |
| Seitenzahl | 336 S. |
| Einbandart | kartoniert |
| Format | 12,8 x 2,8 x 19,6 cm |
| Gewicht | 0,276 kg |