Talking Prices by Olav Velthuis
How do dealers price contemporary art in a world where objective criteria seem absent? This book examines this question from a sociological perspective. On the basis of a range of qualitative and quantitative data, it shows how contemporary art galleries juggle the contradictory logics of art and economics.-
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Interaction Ritual Chains
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On Justification
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Billionaire Wilderness
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Revolution of Things
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The Death and Life of Gentrification
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Marketing Radicalism
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Data-Driven Hollywood
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The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical
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The Minds of Marginalized Black Men
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How Civic Action Works
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Disrupting Science
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There Goes the Gayborhood?
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Reds, Whites, and Blues
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Seeing the World
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Reinventing Justice
The book is an excellent, readable and thorough analysis of how prices are set in the contemporary art marketThe Art Newspaper [Talking Prices] provides an excellent analysis of the tension between art and commerce that characterizes the art world. -- Stuart Plattner American Anthropologist
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".
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691121666 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691121664 |
| Title | Talking Prices |
| Author | Olav Velthuis |
| Series | Princeton Studies In Cultural Sociology |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 2005-07-25 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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