Overview
- Contributes to a better understanding of the crucial role played by intermediaries such as galleries, art fairs, collective platforms
- Analyses the valuation tools (typically rankings) defining artists’ and artworks’ worth
- Confirms the increasing marketization of the arts with reference to the growth of metric assessments in capitalist societies
Part of the book series: Sociology of the Arts (SOA)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Creators in the Market: Artists Between Aesthetics, Critique, and Trade
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Artistic Career Paths: Trajectories and Inequalities in the Market
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The Economy of Idiosyncrasy: Art Dealers and the Commodification of Individuality
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Marketable Art: Galleries and Gallery Owners as Central Intermediaries
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Market Assessments: The Increasing Role of Art Rankings
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About this book
This edited collection offers an in-depth analysis of the complex and changing relationship between the arts and their markets. Highly relevant to almost any sociological exploration of the arts, this interaction has long been approached and studied. However, rapid and far-reaching economic changes have recently occurred.
Through a number of new empirical case studies across multiple artistic, historic and geographical settings, this volume illuminates the developments of various art markets, and their sociological analyses. The contributions include chapters on artistic recognition and exclusion, integration and self-representation in the art market, sociocultural changes, the role of the gallery owner, and collectives, rankings, and constraints across the cultural industries. Drawing on research from Japan, Switzerland, France, Italy, China, the US, UK, and more, this rich and global perspective challenges current debates surrounding art and markets, and will be an important reference point for scholars and students across the sociology of arts, cultural sociology and culture economy.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Andrea Glauser is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria.
Patricia Holder is a freelance researcher and curator, and was previously a research assistant at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Thomas Mazzurana is an innovation manager, and was previously a research assistant at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Olivier Moeschler is Senior Researcher at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Valérie Rolle is Lecturer at the University of Nantes, France.
Franz Schultheis is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Zeppelin University, Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Sociology of Arts and Markets
Book Subtitle: New Developments and Persistent Patterns
Editors: Andrea Glauser, Patricia Holder, Thomas Mazzurana, Olivier Moeschler, Valérie Rolle, Franz Schultheis
Series Title: Sociology of the Arts
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39013-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39012-9Published: 16 June 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39015-0Published: 16 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-39013-6Published: 15 June 2020
Series ISSN: 2569-1414
Series E-ISSN: 2569-1406
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 431
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Culture, Cultural Policy and Politics, Cultural Management, Media Sociology