There is an art to art collecting that involves quite different skills from those employed by artists. People tend to assume it¡¯s all about rich people spending money, but, if that was all that was involved, collecting wouldn¡¯t have half the attraction it does for those obsessed by it.
Japonisme and the Rise of the Modern Art Movement: The Arts of the Meiji Period, Gregory Irvine (Editor), THAMES & HUDSON
Collecting involves much more than mere money, as demonstrated by the story of Dr. David Khalili, part of whose collection has been given a kind of joint academic-treatise/coffee-table-book treatment with the publication of ¡°Japonisme and the Rise of the Modern Art Movement: The Arts of the Meiji Period.¡±
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