Talking prices symbolic meanings of prices on the market for contemporary art

A study of how dealers price contemporary art, this text shows how dealers convey social and cultural meanings to their colleagues, artists, and collectors through their rhetoric about prices, and how the construction of value in the art world is as much about the people who produce and desire art a...

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1. Verfasser: Velthuis, Olav (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Princeton, NJ u.a. Princeton Univ. Press 2005
Schriftenreihe:Princeton studies in cultural sociology
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Zusammenfassung:A study of how dealers price contemporary art, this text shows how dealers convey social and cultural meanings to their colleagues, artists, and collectors through their rhetoric about prices, and how the construction of value in the art world is as much about the people who produce and desire art as about the art itself.
Beschreibung:Zugl.: Rotterdam, Univ., Diss. 2002
Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XII, 264 S.
Ill., graph. Darst.
ISBN:0691121664
0-691-12166-4