cutting edge press edinburgh (2 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. N/A Ilustrador. 2002. Cutting Edge Press, Edinburgh, 2002. Hard Cover. Book Condition : Very Good, text clean, minor bumping spine , jacket has shelf wear. Book will be sent by UK postal service. Bookseller Inventory #004240 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. N/A.

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. First Edition. Framed. Tales of the Art Underworld. Slight shelf wear to top edge of D/J. Brought up in a working class family on the outskirts of New York City, the author was a tailor's sone with an appetite for the finer things in life, a former undertaker who rose from obscurity to become a tastemaker to the Hollywood glitterati including Jack Nicholson, Barbara Streisand, Bruce Willis, Matrix producer Joel Silver, Andy Warhol, Paul Stanley of KISS abd many more. Referred to as 'The oracle' for two decades, he created a global feeding frency in the art world. Appearing to live the American Dream, his high-maintenance, wheeler-dealer lifestyle became a dark path to self-destruction. At the height of his success Volpe crashed and burned in a scandalous caase of fraud. Defended by learding attorney's Nathan and Alan Dershowitz (of Claus von Bulow trial fame), his story made international headlines and threatened to blow the lid of Hollywood and the secret world of art dealing in a star-studded trial. Opting instead to remain silent, he pleaded guilty and spent two years in a federal prison. As a master player in the art underworld, Volpe is able to draw back the curtain to revea how auctions, dealers, collectors and museums manoeuvre art around the globe, and he talks candidly about organized crime, money laundering and trafficking art like drugs. Seduced by the power of illusion but determined to discover the truth, Volpe learned the hard way that nothing on earth is worth the price of your soul. After losing everything he realised that, when you deceive yourself, life is a pictureless frame. Illustrated. 271 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.).