The market /
edited by Natasha Degen.
- 239 pages ; 21 cm.
- Documents of contemporary art .
- Documents of contemporary art series. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Value. Value and money / Aesthetic theory / Contingencies of value : alternative perspectives for critical theory / Pricing the priceless: art, artists and economics / Art and money / The art of making money / Icons of capitalism: how prices make art / The two economies of world art / Patronage. The theory of the leisure class / Bob and Spike / The art auction: sign exchange and sumptuary value / Collecting: an unruly passion / Free exchange / The Yale lecture / Mining the museum in me / The collectors / Hedge fund / Bonfire of the vanities / L'1%, c'est moi / The hideousness of the art world / Institutions and networks. Canvases and careers: institutional change in the French painting world / The American painter as a blue chip / Sort of the Svengali of pop / The £sd of art / Code of ethics for art museums / Art capital / The commercial significance of the exhibition space / Temptations of the fair: Miami virtue and vice / The Venice effect / Large-scale art fabrication and the currency of attention / Georg Simmel -- Theodor Adorno -- Barbara Herrnstein Smith -- William Grampp -- Marc Shell -- Thomas Zaunschirm -- Wolfgang Ullrich -- Malcolm Bull -- Thorstein Veblen -- Tom Wolfe -- Jean Baudrillard -- Werner Muensterberger -- Pierre Bourdieu and Hans Haacke -- Richard Serra -- Fred Wilson -- Elmgreen & Dragset -- Melanie Gilligan -- JJ Charlesworth -- Andrea Fraser -- Charles Saatchi -- Harrison and Cynthia White -- Marvin Elkoff -- Josh Greenfeld -- Peter Fuller -- Guerrilla Girls -- Simon Ford and Anthony Davies -- Martin Braathen -- Peter Schjeldahl -- Olav Velthuis -- Karen van den Berg and Ursula Pasero -- Critique. Exchange rate: on obligation and reciprocity in some art of the 1960s and after / Art as an investment and artistic stockholding: experiments in the 1960s / September 21-October 12, 1974. Claire Copley Gallery, Inc., Los Angeles, California / The art market: affluence and degradation / Answers in my disorder / What is money? / Joseph Beuys, or The last of the proletarians / Love for sale: the words and pictures of Barbara Kruger / Behind the art scene with Louise Lawler / New listing, Zhou Tiehai, rises on debut before reaching fair value / Museum-quality leftovers: Nedko Solakov / Reena Spaulings: an art brand / When attitudes become commodities (become attitudes) / Christian Jankowski and the art business: motif and strategy / Economics of progress / In conversation with Murat Alat / Liu Ding's store / Business art. The philosophy of Andy Warhol: from A to B and back again / Heading towards the market / The new spirit of capitalism / The photographic experience of commodities / Tent community / The medium is the market / Takashi Murakami: company man / Why Koons? / The map and the territory / Miwon Kwon -- Sophie Cras -- Michael Asher -- Ian Burn -- Carl Andre -- Joseph Beuys -- Thierry de Duve -- Kate Linker -- Dietmar Elger -- Zhou Tiehai -- Marc Spiegler -- Nick Stillman -- Jens Hoffmann -- Ruth Diehl -- Tino Sehgal and Maurizio Cattelan -- Ahmet Ögüt -- Liu Ding -- Andy Warhol -- Lü Peng -- Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello -- Thomas Seelig -- Jack Bankowsky -- Hal Foster -- Scott Rothkopf -- Dorothea von Hantelmann -- Michel Houellebecq.
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, Eve 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.--Publisher's website.