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Art and NFTs Amy Whitaker

Art and NFTs By Amy Whitaker

Art and NFTs by Amy Whitaker


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Summary

NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, exploded in the art space last year, no doubt because Beeple (a digital artist) sold his NFT at Christies auction house for a staggering $69 million. This book explains NFTs in the art world, from their history to how (and why) to collect them.

Art and NFTs Summary

Art and NFTs: The Essential Primer by Amy Whitaker

We are just completing a thirty- year arc of digitization. Now we are beginning a thirty-year arc of tokenization. ---Kevin McCoy, artist and Erst person to make an NFT Since the NFT craze began in the art world, the information one can find for the art audience is either too reductive to be useful or repetitive. Artists, collectors, and arts professionals are still trying to understand what NFTs are, how to capitalize on them, and what they mean for the art world in the future. This book addresses precisely this audience. In this book, the authors take the reader through the basic concepts of NFTs, and the blockchain, their origins, their connections to art-making and art-collecting, and their potential to radically reshape the arts. The book s aim is to provide the reader with the information and tools that will enable them to engage with this new technology and understand its connections to the longer arc of art history. The volume will take shape with key chapters: Origin Stories, Artists + Making (how artists are currently using NFTs and practical information on how to make and distribute them), Collectors + Buying (what does it mean to collect an NFT and other advice for current and soon-to-be collectors), and Future States (how NFTs can democratize the art world). In addition to the author s extensive knowledge, the book draws on a wide range of interviews with leading contributors.

Art and NFTs Reviews

NYU associate professor Whitaker and museum director Abrams explain NFTs. . . and what collectors of them need to know. -PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Four chapters - Origin Stories, Artists + Making, Collectors + Buying and Future States - organize this overview of non-fungible tokens and their impact on the art world. -THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

Despite the NFT crash, [The Story of NFTs] argues that the technology still has the power to build a better digital art future. -ARTNET.COM

About Amy Whitaker

Amy Whitaker is a long-standing blockchain and NFT researcher in the arts and faculty member at New York University. She is the author of Museum Legs, Art Thinking, and Economics of Visual Art. Nora Burnett Abrams is the Mark G. Falcone Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and a curator who holds a PhD in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University.

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NGR9780847899364
9780847899364
0847899365
Art and NFTs: The Essential Primer by Amy Whitaker
New
Hardback
Rizzoli International Publications
2023-03-07
144
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