- Series: Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art
- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: The MIT Press (September 20, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0262519674
- ISBN-13: 978-0262519670
Transnational markets hold sway over all
aspects of contemporary culture, and that has transformed the
environment of recent art, blurring the previously discrete realms of
price and value, capital and creativity. Artists have responded not only
critically but imaginatively to the many issues this raises, including
the treatment of artworks as analogous to capital goods, the assertion
that art's value is best measured by the market, and the notion that art
and money share an internal logic. Some artists have investigated the
market's pressures on creative democracy, its ubiquity, vulgarity, and
fetishizing force, while others have embraced the creative possibilities
the market offers. And for a decade curators and theorists have
speculated on the implications of this new symbiosis between art and
money, cultural and economic value. Drawing on a wide range of
interdisciplinary sources, in dialogue with artists' writings, this
anthology traces the historic origins of these debates in different
versions of modernism and surveys the relationships among art, value,
and price; the evolution and influence of patronage; the actors and
institutions of the art market; and the diversity of artistic practices
that either criticize or embrace the conditions of the contemporary
market.
Artists surveyed include Carl Andre, Fareed Armaly and Christian Philipp Müller, Fia Backström, Conrad Bakker, John Baldessari, Joseph Beuys, Ian Burn, Maurizio Cattelan, Lygia Clark, Elmgreen & Dragset, Andrea Fraser, Félix González-Torres, Guerrilla Girls, Andreas Gursky, Hans Haacke, Keith Haring, Marianne Heier, Damien Hirst, Christian Jankowski, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Liu Ding, Takashi Murakami, Ahmet Ögüt, Gabriel Orozco, Danica Phelps, Tino Sehgal, Richard Serra, Nedko Solakov, Reena Spaulings, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Andy Warhol, Fred Wilson, Erwin Wurm, Zhou Tiehai
Writers include Theodor Adorno, Jack Bankowsky, Jean Baudrillard, Luc Boltanski, Pierre Bourdieu, Martin Braathen, Malcolm Bull, Éve Chiapello, Thierry de Duve, Marvin Elkoff, Hal Foster, Peter Fuller, William Grampp, Josh Greenfield, Miwon Kwon, Kate Linker, Scott Rothkopf, Peter Schjeldahl, Thomas Seelig, Marc Shell, Georg Simmel, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Wolfgang Ullrich, Karen van den Berg, Thorstein Veblen, Olav Velthuis, Thomas Zaunschirm
Artists surveyed include Carl Andre, Fareed Armaly and Christian Philipp Müller, Fia Backström, Conrad Bakker, John Baldessari, Joseph Beuys, Ian Burn, Maurizio Cattelan, Lygia Clark, Elmgreen & Dragset, Andrea Fraser, Félix González-Torres, Guerrilla Girls, Andreas Gursky, Hans Haacke, Keith Haring, Marianne Heier, Damien Hirst, Christian Jankowski, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Liu Ding, Takashi Murakami, Ahmet Ögüt, Gabriel Orozco, Danica Phelps, Tino Sehgal, Richard Serra, Nedko Solakov, Reena Spaulings, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Andy Warhol, Fred Wilson, Erwin Wurm, Zhou Tiehai
Writers include Theodor Adorno, Jack Bankowsky, Jean Baudrillard, Luc Boltanski, Pierre Bourdieu, Martin Braathen, Malcolm Bull, Éve Chiapello, Thierry de Duve, Marvin Elkoff, Hal Foster, Peter Fuller, William Grampp, Josh Greenfield, Miwon Kwon, Kate Linker, Scott Rothkopf, Peter Schjeldahl, Thomas Seelig, Marc Shell, Georg Simmel, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Wolfgang Ullrich, Karen van den Berg, Thorstein Veblen, Olav Velthuis, Thomas Zaunschirm
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