...Sanda Miller © MCB UP Limited 2002 --> Economics Art History Second, given the mysterious way the law of supply and demand operates with devastating effect on market prices, it is difficult to understand why anybody would purchase an artist's work in bulk as the Saatchis...

... of Hitler’s interests. For example, the chapter on the arts considers his love of Wagner, examining the style of the productions he attended after Gustav Mahler had left Vienna for the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and the inroads this would have made on Hitler’s limited budget. The picture of the young...

... paper with a wealth of illustrations ‐ of people, places and works of art. Given the manifest strengths of the work, which also include the lucidity and precision of the prose, to mention weaknesses would seem ungracious. Yet, any undertaking of this nature and magnitude must invite some quibbles. One...