How Long to Read Sold

How Long Does it Take to Read Sold?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 48 minutes to read Sold by Nicholas Faith

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Going....going...gone...The way we regard our possessions has completely changed.Until around 1960 the paintings, china and furniture around us were cherished for their beauty, their usefulness or their emotional associations.But a new dimension has been added: each work of art, however sentimentally important, now has a price-tag attached to it. And, more often than not, the value will be related to what the object would fetch at one of Sotheby's salerooms.This is not surprising. For the revolution is symbolised by one man, the late Peter Wilson, and by Sotheby's, the auction house of which he was chairman for twenty eventful years.He took the world's art market by storm and in doing so, enlarged our ideas of what constituted 'tradeable beauty' and enabled us to attach precise financial values to the contents of even quite humble homes.For Peter Wilson was that rarest of phenomena - a man who not only transformed a business, but also changed the way we look at the world.He lured a receptive public on both sides of the Atlantic into the belief that art, and only art, could provide investors with a refuge from the economic problems of the 1960s and the 1970s.Sold interweaves the story of Peter Wilson with the history of Sotheby's and of the art market as a whole, exploring the changes in the reasons why we buy works of art at all.Blending a mixture of historical research with the memories of those who worked with him, Nicholas Faith explores the ramifications of Sotheby's progress: its historic battle with Christie's; its take-over of Parke-Bernet in New York; and the way its saleroom in Belgravia helped revolutionise our attitude to the products of the Victorian age.Only now can the full story of Peter Wilson, and the revolution he initiated, be told. Praise for Nicholas Faith 'Faith gives his readers penetrating, sometimes disturbing and frequently amusing insights into... the art world itself. Sold should fetch attention from everyone interested in the art marketplace.' - KirkusNicholas Faith is a well-known financial and economic journalist and author. A Londoner, educated at Harrow School and Oxford, he was for some years Investment Editor of The Economist, and subsequently Industrial Editor of The Sunday Times. He is the author of twenty-three books.

How long is Sold?

Sold by Nicholas Faith is 284 pages long, and a total of 72,136 words.

This makes it 96% the length of the average book. It also has 88% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Sold Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 34 minutes to read Sold aloud.

What Reading Level is Sold?

Sold is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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