Tourist art production is a global phenomenon and is increasingly recognized as an important and authentic expression of indigenous visual traditions. These thoughtful, engaging essays provide a comparative perspective on the history, character, and impact of tourist art in colo…
This volume offers a guide to corporate collecting, examining its history, nature and importance, and the different reasons for starting and maintaining corporate collections.
"A brief overview of the global art market precedes an analysis of the various sales venues (auction, commercial gallery, etc.). Library research is reviewed and advanced methods explored. Methods for assigning values are explored, and sources of price data, both in print and on…
"This essential handbook offers art professionals and collectors an acessible legal analysis of important principles in art law, as well as a practical guide to legal rights when creating, buying, selling and collecting art in a global market. Although the book is international …
Examines original documents from Amsterdam's Orphan Chamber, analyzing the profiles of buyers of art by auction.
Art at auction in 17th century Amsterdam
This book exploits a trove of original documents that have survived on the auctions organized by the Orphan Chamber of Amsterdam in the first half of the 17th century. For the first time, the names of some 2000 buyers of works of art at auction in the 29 extant notebooks of the …
Examines original documents from Amsterdam's Orphan Chamber, analyzing the profiles of buyers of art by auction.
Met lit. opg. Met reg. Exploration of the economic, aesthetic, institutional, and ideological factors that led to the dominance of modernism in the international art world by the early 1900s. The role of the emerging dealer / gallery market and of modernist art historiographics …
The commercial success of modernism, argues Robert Jensen, depended greatly on possession of historical legitimacy. The very development of modern art was inseparable from the commercialism many of its proponents sought to transcend. In this fundamental rethinking of the rise of…