发表于2025-03-30
Talking Prices 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: 艺术 艺术社会学 艺术市场 艺术经济学 社会学 画廊经济 藝術市場 文化社会学
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.
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评分just chapter one... 1. Ideological level: The Capitalist market or The Cultural world? 2. Mechanism (Management) level: The Back Room is behind the Front Room. A dualism approach should be suggested.
评分易读易懂,还很有趣。记几个点:1. 三个 narrative 有 honorable, superstar, prudent markets。2. size 最重要 for pricing。3.price decrease to avoid。
Talking Prices 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书