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Art and money / edited by Peter Stupples.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art--Economic aspects.
- Art.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (197 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
- Summary:
- Art and money have much in common. Both are spheres of social activity that carry symbolic values. A coin is simply a piece of metal, stamped with signs to give it symbolic meaning, to give it a value, a value that changes with the vicissitudes of its economic life, or, when no longer legal tender, with its life as a collectable. A painting is a piece of canvas, stretched on a frame to make it taut, which is then covered with pigment, brushed with an image, a sign that gives it value, a value that changes with the vicissitudes of its aesthetic and symbolic life, with its commodity value. Art a
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter One
- Chapter Two
- Chapter Three
- Chapter Four
- Chapter Five
- Chapter Six
- Chapter Seven
- Chapter Eight
- Chapter Nine
- Chapter Ten
- Contributors.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 16, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-8401-4
- OCLC:
- 924632146
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