Velthuis Talking Prices

Symbolic Meanings of Prices on the Market for Contemporary Art
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4940-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 55, 288 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Velthuis, Olav

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables and Graphs ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1

Chapter 1: The Architecture of the Art Market 21

Chapter 2: Exchanging Meaning 53

Chapter 3: Promoters versus Parasites 77

Chapter 4: Determinants of Prices 97

Chapter 5: The Art of Pricing 116

Chapter 6: Stories of Prices 132

Chapter 7: Symbolic Meanings of Prices 158

Chapter 8: Conclusion 179

Appendix A: Interview Questionnaire 191

Appendix B: Description of Interview Sample 194

Appendix C: Record Prices for Art 197

Appendix D: Multilevel Analysis of Prices for Art 199

Notes 209

Bibliography 237

Index 255

Über Autor(innen)

Olav Velthuis has worked as Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Konstanz and has been a Visiting Scholar at Princeton University and Columbia University. Currently he writes about economic affairs for the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant.