Contents:
Firs principles -- Significant contributions to visual arts appreciation -- Essential knowledge -- The art of buying art -- Types of art -- Sources of acquiring fine arts -- Art mediums and techniques through the ages -- Limited edition arts and prints -- Photography -- The economics of fine arts collecting -- Building the collection -- Inspirational and persuasive mentosr in contemporary collecting -- Collectors of fine arts -- Valuation and insurance -- Humdrum everyday images -- Traditional art/real art versus contemporary art "The avant garde" -- Art sponsors, patrons and philantropists and family heirloom -- Art subjects depicted by man from time immemorial -- Housing and arranging a collection; curatorship and restoration -- Forgeries : an eye for stolen art, copyrights and fakes -- An eye for stolen art -- Art genre plus eleven point tips for collectors -- In praise and celebration on fine arts -- Gallery closures -- Some important things to know about art -- The do's and don'ts of fine-arts collecting -- Recommendations and suggested further reading -- Revelation/conclusion.
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