The Global Rules of Art : : The Emergence and Divisions of a Cultural World Economy / / Larissa Buchholz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2022
• VerfasserIn: Buchholz, Larissa,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Studies in Global and Comparative Sociology
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.) :; 57 b/w illus. 17 tables. 8 maps.

A trailblazing look at the historical emergence of a global field in contemporary art and the diverse ways artists become valued worldwidePrior to the 1980s, the postwar canon of “international” contemporary art was made up almost exclusively of artists from North America and Western Europe, while cultural agents from other parts of the world often found themselves on the margins. The Global Rules of Art examines how this discriminatory situation has changed in recent decades. Drawing from abundant sources—including objective indicators from more than one hundred countries, multiple institutional histories and discourses, extensive fieldwork, and interviews with artists, critics, curators, gallerists, and auction house agents—Larissa Buchholz examines the emergence of a world-spanning art field whose logics have increasingly become defined in global terms.Deftly blending comprehensive historical analyses with illuminating case studies, The Global Rules of Art breaks new ground in its exploration of valuation and how cultural hierarchies take shape in a global context. The book’s innovative global field approach will appeal to scholars in the sociology of art, cultural and economic sociology, interdisciplinary global studies, and anyone interested in the dynamics of global art and culture.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Preface: An Unsettling Success -- 1 A Global Field Approach to Art and Culture -- Part I. The Emergence of a Global Field in the Contemporary Visual Arts -- 2 The Genesis of a Global Artistic Subfield -- 3 From an International Avant-Garde Market to a Global Commercial Subfield -- Part II. Dynamics of Artistic Recognition in the Globalizing Field -- 4 Cross-Border Valuation between Art Experts and the Market -- 5 Diversity and Careers in a Dual Cultural World Economy -- Part III. Creative Lives -- 6 Becoming a Global Artist at the Relatively Autonomous Pole -- 7 The Hype of the Chinese Market Star Yue Minjun -- 8 “Global Art” between Autonomy and Heteronomy -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Appendices -- Notes -- References -- Index