{"product_id":"birkenshaw-david-top-tick-9781038352989","title":"Top Tick","description":"The art world loves a spectacle. But at what cost?\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIn Top Tick, art collector and former finance professional David Birkenshaw pulls back the velvet curtain on contemporary art's high-stakes circus, where branding often matters more than brushwork. Blending personal insight with auction data, he reveals a volatile marketplace in which only the top 1 percent of \"brand-name\" artists (think Warhol, Hirst, or Basquiat) hold their value, while the rest quietly vanish from gallery walls-and balance sheets.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nFrom multimillion-dollar bananas to crypto-funded publicity stunts, Top Tick explores how hype, wealth signaling, and fashion routinely outpace artistic merit. This isn't a takedown of contemporary art. Rather, it's a clear-eyed look at how it's traded, flaunted, and forgotten. A cautionary tale disguised as market analysis, Top Tick is essential reading for anyone who still believes \"investment-grade art\" is anything but an oxymoron.","brand":"FriesenPress","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53770108436822,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/birkenshaw-david-top-tick-9781038352989","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}