When Art meets Money : Encounters at the Art Basel
Series
Kunstwissenschaftliche Bibliothek
ISBN
978-3-86335-744-3
Type
book
Date Issued
2015
Author(s)
Editor(s)
Posthofen, Christian
Abstract
The Art Basel is more than just a fair in the commercial sense of the word, more than a temporally and spatially concentrated gathering of dealers offering their goods for sale to interested buyers. It is at the same time the site of a display of »holy« goods in the pres-ence of thousands and thousands of believers, a pilgrim's goal for the ritualized adoration of modern and contemporary art. It is also, and for precisely this reason, the decisive wit-ness of the upheaval marking a radical change in that relationship between »art« and »money« - with all the consequences, not least for the evaluation of what is to be re-garded as »genuine« art. The present study, the result of several years of sociological field work, attempts to draw a picture of this change as perceived by the participants, the or-ganizers of the fair, the gallerists, collectors, curators, art consultants and artists, as a central problem of the contemporary art scene. The authors, members of a research group of the University of St. Gallen, present in When Art meets Money a detailed study of the practice of the contemporary »picture market«, drawing upon Pierre Bourdieu's influential sociology of art.
Language
English
Keywords
Art market
Art Basel
Sociology of art
Art fair
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
HSG Profile Area
SHSS - Kulturen, Institutionen, Maerkte (KIM)
Refereed
No
Publisher
König
Publisher place
Köln
Number
Bd. 44
Start page
257
Subject(s)
Eprints ID
245197
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SCHULTHEIS Franz - SINGLE Erwin - EGGER Stephan - MAZZURANA Thomas (2015) When Art meets Money. Encounters at the Art Basel.pdf
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2.91 MB
Format
Adobe PDF
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