A History of the Western Art Market : A Sourcebook of Writings on Artists, Dealers, and Markets / edited by Titia Hulst.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hulst, Titia, 1959- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Economic aspects.

Art dealers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (432 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"This is the first sourcebook to trace the emergence and evolution of art markets in the Western European economy, framing them within the larger narrative of the ascendancy of capitalist markets. Selected writings from across academic disciplines present compelling evidence of art's inherent commercial dimension and show how artists, dealers, and collectors have interacted over time, from the city-states of Quattrocento Italy to the high-stakes markets of postmillennial New York and Beijing. This approach casts a startling new light on the traditional concerns of art history and aesthetics, revealing much that is provocative, profound, and occasionally even comic. This volume's unique historical perspective makes it appropriate for use in college courses and postgraduate and professional programs, as well as for professionals working in art-related environments such as museums, galleries, and auction houses."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A History of the Western Art Market

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

A NOTE TO READERS

INTRODUCTION

1. ART IN A COMMERCIAL WORLD

I. ART IN SOCIETY

Illusions of Disinterest

Marx on Ideology and Art

Avant-Garde and Kitsch

The Artworld

Culture Industry Reconsidered

II. THE VALUE OF ART

The Cultural Biography ofThings

Aura

Varieties of Artistic Value in Contemporary Aesthetics

The Production of Belief

The Paradox of Rarity: Photography

Symbolic Meanings of Prices

Art. . . Contemporary of Itself

2. ARTISTS AND COLLECTORS IN THE MARKET FOR ART

I. THE SUPPLY OF AND DEMAND FOR WORKS OF ART

Two Paradigms of Artistic Activity

Arts Markets

II. THE NATURE OF THE DEMAND FOR WORKS OF ART

The Synchronization of Social Change in Europe

Economic Value as the Objectification of Subjective Values

Conspicuous Consumption and Pecuniary Canons of Taste

Collectors and Collecting

Connoisseurs and Experts

III. THE ARTIST: HOMO ECONOMICUS / FEMINA ECONOMICA

Art, Honor, and Excellence

Determining Value on the Art Market in the Golden Age

Reference, Deference and Difference

The Trademark Tracey Emin

Notes on the Mythic Being l - lll

Whose Image Is It?

IV. THE ART MARKET

Property and Exhibition Rights

Informational Efficiency of the Art Market

The Market for Modern Prints

3. THE ITALIAN CITY-STATES

The Culture of Consumption

Conditions of Trade

Italian Artists in Sixteenth-Century England

Leonardo and Leonardism

Marketing

The Market for Paintings in Italy

The Gender and Internationalism of Rosalba Camera

Letters to Isabella Stewart Gardner

4. ANTWERP

The Business of Art: Patrons, Clients, and Markets

Marketing Art in Antwerp

Pieter Aertsen's Meat Stall as Contemporary Art

Second Bosch

A Sixteenth-Century Master-Pupil Contract

Exporting Art across the Globe

Trade and Art in Seventeenth-Century Antwerp

Rubens's Studio Practice

5. AMSTERDAM

On Brabant Rubbish, Economic Competition, Artistic Rivalry, and the Growth of the Market for Paintings

Cost and Value in Dutch Art

Art Dealers in the Netherlands

Italian Paintings in Holland

Freedom, Art, and Money

Letters to Constantijn Huygens, ca. 1639

Attributions in Auction Catalogs

The Solliciteur-Culturel

6. GERMANY AND SPAIN

I. GERMANY

The Reformation and the Decline of German Art

Art Auctions in Germany during the Eighteenth Century

II. SPAIN

Painting in Spain, 1500-1700

Exploring Markets in Spain and Nueva España

Spanish Art and Global Discourse

7. LONDON

Picture Consumption in London

The Art Market

England and the Netherlands Compared

Engraving

Hogarth

Portrait Painting as a Business Enterprise

Christie's Auction House

Art Collecting and Victorian Middle-Class Taste

David Thomson and the Goupil Gallery

Whistler and the English Print Market

Roger Fry's Commercial Exhibitions

8. PARIS

Gersaint and the Marketing of Art

David and the "Exposition Payante"

Noising Things Abroad

An Italian Patron of French Neo-Classic Art

Circuits of Production, Circuits of Consumption

Dealing in Temperaments

Courbet's Landscapes and Their Market

The Retrospective Exhibition

Entrepreneurial Patronage in Nineteenth-Century France

Ambroise Vollard Correspondence

Vollard's Bronzes

La Peau de I'Ours and Galerie Berthe Weill

The Steins'Early Years in Paris

The Avant-Garde, Order, and the Art Market

Galeries Georges Petit

Painting as a Safe Investment

9. ART CONSUMPTION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA

Touching Pictures by William Harnett

Winslow Homer as Entrepreneur

J. P. Morgan's Renaissance Bronzes

The Armory Show

Alfred Stieglitz

Diary of an Art Dealer

Vollard

Press Release, Art ofThis Century

The Exhibitions at Art of This Century

10. NEW YORK

Artists and Dealers

Mark Rothko

The New York Art Market ca.1960

Clement Greenberg

Mike Wallace Interviews Marcel Duchamp

The Leo Castelli Gallery

Mr. Andy Warhol

The Gutman Letter

Unpublished Notes

Land Artists and Art Markets

Unpackaging Simulationism

11. THE GLOBAL ART MARKET

The Art Market in the 1980s

Video Art

Money Is No Object

The Internationalization of the Contemporary Art World

Neo-modernity, Neo-biennalism, Neo-fairism

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520340770

0520340779

OCLC:

1153458443