This thesis examines the market growth of Western American bronze sculpture over the course of 124 years (1895-2019), from Frederic Remington’s Bronco Buster until now. The genre of Western American art is a highly marginalized genre that has received limited study, and the mark…
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The artworld's unethical practices are ubiquitous amongst its stakeholders, with a lack of moral responsibility that allows for continuous sexual, emotional, and racial abuse. As an industry that is unregulated and resistant to change, these issues have been passed down from one…
This paper explores the development of art market information and art market analysis since the 1960s. Unlike the stock or bond markets, primary market data is not publicly available in the art market. Due to the lack of primary market information, secondary market data, auction…
During the digital tide of the last several decades, the material, metaphysical and economic properties of art have evolved in response to the ever-accelerating growth of cybernetics. The contemporary art ecosystem (CAE) has long been considered “the last unregulated financial m…
This thesis scrutinizes the rediscovery of the Chinese artist Sanyu (or Chang Yu, 常玉, 1895-1966) by examining major factors that have prompted the radical increase in value of Sanyu's market from the late 1980s to the present. In 2019 and 2020, six paintings by Sanyu fetched ove…
This doctoral study is concerned with identifying the determinants of the institutionalisation of art (IoA) in general and institutionalisation of contemporary art (IoCA) in particular. It focuses on the influence of the state and the private sector on economics and politics of …
This dissertation is an ethnography of Kazakhstan's art world after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Drawing on fifteen months of anthropological field research in Almaty and Astana, in Kazakhstan, I inquire into the discourses and practices of aesthetic production as visual…
For a long time, the art market has been monopolized by a handful of players who possessed most of the wealth generated by the market. Today, as we continue to navigate a global health crisis—the coronavirus pandemic—the art market is undergoing major disruption: priorities are …