BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR COLLECTORS

Books about the Business of Art
Books about How to Look at Art
Art Terminology Websites
Magazines and Ezines about the Business of Art

This is a list of books that can help collectors become more comfortable in their dealings with the art business world. SDVAN takes no responsibility for their content but suggests that collectors choose books which are aligned with their own learning and reading styles.

• Hislop's Official International Price Guide to Fine Art by DUNCAN HISLOP
• Collecting Art: A Journal to Get You Started by Glen Helfand
• Legal Guide to Buying and Selling Art and Collectibles by Armen R. Vartian
• Print Collecting by Silvie Turner
• Discovering Art: A User's Guide to the World of Collecting by Jeanne Frank
• Profiting from Fine-Art Collecting: A Book to Inspire and Promote Art Collecting by Prince Lawrence O. Anifalaje
• The Art of Buying Art
  Alan S. Bamberger, noted art expert, author, and syndicated columnist, the best and easiest-to-understand book on how to buy, sell, evaluate, appraise, and collect art.
• Gordon's Print Price Annual
  International auction results with sales prices of 50,000 Old Master, Modern, and Contemporary Fine Prints;
• Lawrence's Dealer Print Prices
  International dealer "retail" prices from dealer catalogues and inventory with over 30,000 entries.
• Gordon's Photography Price Annual International
  International auction results with sales prices of up to 13,000 photographs of all types and periods.
• Davenport's Art Reference & Price Guide
  The standard artist directory containing biographical and pricing information for over 250,000 international artists.
• International Auction House Directory
  International directory of over 5,000 auction houses with cross-referenced indicies for both "traditional" and Internet houses.
• The Passionate Collector: Eighty Years in the World of Art by Roy R. Neuberger
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How to Look at Art - these books give you a short course in art appreciation

• About Looking
  John Berger, J. Laslocky (Editor)
• Ways of Seeing
  John Berger
• To Hell With Culture
  Herbert Read
• This Is Modern Art
  Matthew Collings
• Reading Pictures: What We Think about when We Look at Art
  Alberto Manguel
• Why Art Cannot Be Taught: A Handbook for Art Students
  James Elkins
• On Art and Connoisseurship
  by Max. J. Friedlander
• Art as Experience
  John Dewey
• False Impressions
  Thomas Hoving
• Art For Dummies
  Thomas Hoving, Andrew Wyeth
• Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing
  Margaret S. Livingstone, Foreword by David H. Hubel
• Greatest Works of Art of Western Civilization
  Thomas Hoving
• History of Art: The Western Tradition
  H. W. Janson, Anthony F. Janson
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Art Terminology Websites:

• ArtLex Art Dictionary
• Art Terminology on Progressive Arts Media
• Tate Museum of Art Glossary
• Modern Sculpture Art Terminology Glossary
• Glossartist – listing of Art Glossaries
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  There are a growing list of magazines for collectors: some are hard copy other are ezines/websites.
• Art and Auction
  Covers topics from appraisals to donations in a wide range of articles.
• Art News
  An annual list of the top collectors, reviews of exhibitions and articles like "How to look at art".
• Art Forum
  Best international coverage of the avant-garde in contemporary art.
• Artprice
  Their reference data banks on the art market covering 309,000 artists from the 4th C. to present in the following fine art categories: drawing-watercolour, painting, tapestry, prints, posters, sculpture-installation, photography and Audiovisual & Multimedia.
• Ask Art
  A record of 35,000 American artists
• Art Net
  A listing of artist, galleries, a pricing data base and market alerts as well as articles for art buyers
• Art Fact
  Information on auctions and antiques as well as fine art
• Arts Review
  Specializes in London and the UK but also covers the international market as London is the center of that market in 2005
• Absolute Arts
  Sends out a nifty newsletter almost ever day with new museum quality exhibitions. Great fun to keep up with the new and newly revealed. Also has an artists and gallery listing service worldwide.
• ArtKrush
  Formerly a web-based art magazine and virtual gallery, Artkrush has relaunched as a twice monthly email magazine, featuring current news, links, people, and events in the international art community based out of LA and NY.
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Look for other topics in the SmART Collector

Topic: Commissioning Art - Joan Seifried at Galerie D'Art International written by Lisa Roche (Report on the Art Collectors Round Tables, 2004)

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