Understanding Art Markets Inside the world of art and business

• Main Author: Robertson, Iain (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Routledge 2016; ©2016
• Edition: Second edition
• Subjects: Art > Economic aspects; Art > Marketing
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The global art market has recently been valued at close to $50bn - a rise of over 60% since the global financial crisis. These figures are driven by demand from China and other emerging markets, as well as the growing phenomenon of the artist bypassing dealers as a market force in his/her own right....

Table of Contents:

• Epigraph
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Technical and structural mechanisms
• The structure of art commodity markets
• Art, religion, history and money
• Legal and ethical issues
• The markets for art
• The modern and impressionist market : the politics of success
• International contemporary art : an art world explanation of its value
• Chinese taste for chinese art
• Old masters : a gradual change in values
• External factors
• Art valuation and investment
• The public cultural domain : the state, museums and the built environment
• The evolution of craft into art.