Martin Gammon, formerly Managing Director of Museum Services in North America for Bonhams Auctioneers, is a founder of the Pergamon Art Group, which advises museums and private collections on bequests and collection management. He appears regularly as an appraiser on the PBS series Antiques Roadshow.
With its echo of Freud in the title, Deaccessioning and Its
Discontents is as much a fascinating, penetrating study of
psychological unease as it is an indispensable art-historical
account.—Art Fund
Gammon, in his fascinating observation of the goings-on of American
museums, is a new world man, [and] the case studies he presents in
the book are extraordinary...—The Key Reporter
A valuable contribution to the literature on museums, filling gaps
in our knowledge and offering thought-provoking insights about the
formation and alteration of collections. Each book is beautifully
printed and, for nerds like me, the appendices and notes amplify
the authors' observations and invite further inquiry.—
It is to the credit of Martin Gammon that his approach to the
subject is not deeply polemical (although he certainly has views he
wishes to express), but rather historical and analytical. After
outlining his topic in a lengthy introduction, he presents first
the British experience and then the American, with several
extensive case studies and an appendix covering further notable
cases from 1622 to 2014.—BURLINGTON MAGAZINE
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