Art galleries have been, and continue to be, enormously influential in
aesthetic discourse. They have launched the world's most celebrated
artists and nurtured its key movements. Where would Pop Art be without
Leo Castelli? The New York School without the Guggenheim Jeune? And what
would Fluxus have become without Ren» Block's commitment? International
Art Galleries is a star-studded, photo-filled look at the art world's
star-makers, the first book to examine the modern gallery phenomenon,
offering over 75 profiles of galleries from around the world, and
portraits of their key players arranged by decade. American readers will
recognize Art of This Century, Betty Parsons, Leo Castelli, Marian
Goodman, Paula Cooper, American Fine Arts, Co., Gagosian, Deitch
Projects (where Jeffrey Deitch is shown working nonchalantly with a
naked model splayed across his desk, her butt to the camera), Gavin
Brown's Enterprise and the Project. Other international players range
from Galerie Iris Clert in Paris to Tomio Koyama in Tokyo and
kurimanzutto in Mexico City. Lavishly illustrated throughout with
photographs of artists, gallerists, installations and events, this
comprehensive history of the modern gallery system offers an intriguing
and engaging angle on the development of art since 1945.
