Great Collectors of Our Time: Art Collecting since 1945

摘要

James Stourton has compiled a very interesting overview on art collecting since the end of the Second World War up until 2005. Great Collectors of Our Time focuses on leading collectors in Europe, North America and the Far East, following their tastes from the twentieth through to the twenty-first centuries. The content is driven by the art collected rather than the collectors themselves, many of which have spoken for the first time about their collections in this book. According to the inner sleeve of the dust jacket this is "the first major survey of contemporary collecting and collectors since Douglas Cooper's Great Private Collections, published in 1963". The author, James Stourton, is Chairman of Sotheby's UK. He read History of Art at Cambridge and joined Sotheby's in 1979. He is an author, lecturer and regularly writes on the history of collecting for Apollo, The Art Newspaper, Matrix, The Independent and The Spectator.