Art Markets, Agents and Collectors

Author: Adriana Turpin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501348892
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
Art Markets, Agents and Collectors brings together a wide variety of case studies, based on letters and detailed archival research, which nuance the history of the art market and the role of the collector within it. Using diaries, account books and other archival sources, the contributions to this volume show how agents set up networks and acquired works of art, often developing the taste and knowledge of the collectors for whom they were working. They are therefore seen as important actors in the market, having a specific role that separates them from auctioneers, dealers, museum curators or amateurs, while at the same time acknowledging and analyzing the dual positions that many held. Each chronological period is introduced by a contextual essay, written by a leading expert in the field, which sets out the art market in the period concerned and the ways in which agents functioned. This book is an invaluable tool for those needing a broader introduction to the intricate workings of the art market.

Art Markets, Agents and Collectors

Author: Adriana Turpin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501348884
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 417

The Business of Art

Author: Lee Evan Caplin
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 376

Book Description
Offers guidance for artists in financial planning, copyright protection, the preparation of a portfolio, and sale of works to art dealers, museums, and other markets.

Museums and Communities

Author: Viv Golding
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0857851314
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 339

Book Description
With contributions from key scholars in a range of disciplines, this engaging new volume explores the complex issues surrounding collaboration between museums and their communities.

A Poor Collector's Guide to Buying Great Art

Author: Erling Kagge
Publisher: Die Gestalten Verlag-DGV
ISBN: 9783899555790
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Everything you always wanted to know about the art market but were afraid to ask. A pioneering collector explains how to use passion and intuition to acquire key pieces or build a collection--even on a limited budget.

A History of the Western Art Market

Author: Titia Hulst
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520340779
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 432

Book Description
This is the first sourcebook to trace the emergence and evolution of art markets in the Western 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. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 2017. This is the first sourcebook to trace the emergence and evolution of art markets in the Western economy, framing them within the larger narrative of the ascendancy of capitalist markets. Selected writings from across academic disciplines present compellin

The Economics of Contemporary Art

Author: Alessia Zorloni
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642324053
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 195

Book Description
The book examines the contemporary art system with a broad and systematic approach, through the application of models of microeconomics and industrial organizations. By breaking down the traditional barriers between different academic disciplines such as art and economics, this book offers a unique opportunity to grasp the complexities of the contemporary art world and provides the tools to conduct a structural analysis of that market. The result is an in-depth analysis of the contemporary art market from an interdisciplinary perspective. While it is not a textbook in the strictest sense, the book offers a concise and effective overview of all actors in the art system, and provides supporting data and valuable information, both conceptual and practical. It is therefore a text that can be used by students wishing to better understand the complex dynamics that govern the contemporary art market, but also by cultural managers, collectors, potential art investors or simply art lovers who need a quick reference.

Guide to Literary Agents & Art

Author: Writer's Digest Books (Firm)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists' representatives United States Directories
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description

Florence, Berlin and Beyond

Author: Lynn Catterson
Publisher: Studies in the History of Coll
ISBN: 9789004419902
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 572

Book Description
Forming a collection -- Transacting an entire collection -- Dealers for dealers -- (No longer) obscure agents -- Issues of attribution.

Talking Prices

Author: Olav Velthuis
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691134030
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
How do dealers price contemporary art in a world where objective criteria seem absent? Talking Prices is the first book to examine this question from a sociological perspective. On the basis of a wide range of qualitative and quantitative data, including interviews with art dealers in New York and Amsterdam, Olav Velthuis shows how contemporary art galleries juggle the contradictory logics of art and economics. In doing so, they rely on a highly ritualized business repertoire. For instance, a sharp distinction between a gallery's museumlike front space and its businesslike back space safeguards the separation of art from commerce. Velthuis shows that prices, far from being abstract numbers, convey rich meanings to trading partners that extend well beyond the works of art. A high price may indicate not only the quality of a work but also the identity of collectors who bought it before the artist's reputation was established. Such meanings are far from unequivocal. For some, a high price may be a symbol of status; for others, it is a symbol of fraud. Whereas sociological thought has long viewed prices as reducing qualities to quantities, this pathbreaking and engagingly written book reveals the rich world behind these numerical values. Art dealers distinguish different types of prices and attach moral significance to them. Thus the price mechanism constitutes a symbolic system akin to language.