Patricia Vigderman
The Memory Palace of Isabella Stewart Gardner
Louisville:
Sarabande,
2007.
151 pp.; 29 b/w ills.
Paper
$14.95
(9781932511437)
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July 24, 2008
Ellen B. Hirschland and Nancy Hirschland Ramage
The Cone Sisters of Baltimore: Collecting at Full Tilt
Evanston:
Northwestern University Press,
2008.
352 pp.; 48 color ills.; 58 b/w ills.
Cloth
$34.95
(9780810124813)
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Collectors, it sometimes seems, are a necessary evil. Artists create, and we art writers explain the significance of what they make. But collectors, who usually are privileged people, mostly only pick up the check. Too often they treat art as a form of speculation, and so are ready to resell when its value increases. And many of them are not shy about hustling for tips. As a dealer explained to me over dinner, after the...