1st Edition
The Development of the Art Market in England Money as Muse, 1730–1900
288 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book gives a comprehensive account of the history and underlying economics of the modern art market in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain.
Introduction; Chapter 1 The Early Stages: From the Netherlands to Great Britain; Chapter 2 The Commoditization of Theories of Art; Chapter 3 The Painter as Homo Economicus; Chapter 4 Critics and Auctions; Chapter 5 The Evolution of Picture-Dealing; Chapter 6 The Victorian Era; Chapter 7 ‘Working the Oracle’: The Tools of the Trade; Chapter 8 The Formation of a Nexus: A Story of Christie’s; Chapter 9 Commoditization and the Artist as Producer: Product Differentiation and the Domestication of Pictures; Chapter 10 The End of the ‘Golden Age’; Chapter 11 Postscript: A Perpetual Innovative Whirl;
Biography
Bayer, Thomas M; Page, John R.