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Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 The Dealer is the Devil : An Insider's History of the Aboriginal Art Trade
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' Adrian Newstead’s explosive memoir lifts the lid on what Robert Hughes once described as “the last great art movement of the 20th century.” After thirty years sitting round campfires with Aboriginal artists all over Australia, Newstead has produced the definitive expose of “the first great art movement of the 21st century”. From remote indigenous communities with their dispossessed populations of tribal elders and troubled youth, to the gleaming white box galleries, high powered auction houses, and formidable art institutions of major cities all over the world,

'Newstead combines personal anecdotes with an insider’s grasp of the inter national art market. With vivid portraits of artists, dealers and scamsters, the book races from pre-contact and colonial days to the heady celebrations of the Sydney Olympics and the devastating impact of the global financial crisis. Newstead’s humour, love and respect for his subjects produces a story that reads at times like a thriller and also a lament for a lost world.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Dedication:

    For John and Lincoln

    and

    In memory of

    Joe and Jimmy

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Blackheath, Blue Mountains, Sydney, New South Wales,: Brandl and Schlesinger , 2014 .
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      Extent: 520p.
      Description: illus.
      Note/s:
      • Published 1 February 2014
      ISBN: 1921556447, 9781921556449

Works about this Work

Art 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 15 April 2014; (p. 7)

— Review of The Dealer is the Devil : An Insider's History of the Aboriginal Art Trade Adrian Newstead , 2014 single work autobiography
Portrait of the Art Dealer as the Devil's Advocate Simon Caterson , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 12 -13 April 2014; (p. 31) The Canberra Times , 12 April 2014; (p. 23) The Age , 12 April 2014; (p. 31)

— Review of The Dealer is the Devil : An Insider's History of the Aboriginal Art Trade Adrian Newstead , 2014 single work autobiography
Portrait of the Art Dealer as the Devil's Advocate Simon Caterson , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 12 -13 April 2014; (p. 31) The Canberra Times , 12 April 2014; (p. 23) The Age , 12 April 2014; (p. 31)

— Review of The Dealer is the Devil : An Insider's History of the Aboriginal Art Trade Adrian Newstead , 2014 single work autobiography
Art 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 15 April 2014; (p. 7)

— Review of The Dealer is the Devil : An Insider's History of the Aboriginal Art Trade Adrian Newstead , 2014 single work autobiography
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