Talking Prices : : Symbolic Meanings of Prices on the Market for Contemporary Art / / Olav Velthuis.
How do dealers price contemporary art in a world where objective criteria seem absent? Talking Prices is the first book to examine this question from a sociological perspective. On the basis of a wide range of qualitative and quantitative data, including interviews with art dealers in New York and A...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology ;
55 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 20 halftones. 5 line illus. 16 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Graphs
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Architecture of the Art Market
- Chapter 2. Exchanging Meaning
- Chapter 3. Promoters versus Parasites
- Chapter 4. Determinants of Prices
- Chapter 5. The Art of Pricing
- Chapter 6. Stories of Prices
- Chapter 7. Symbolic Meanings of Prices
- Chapter 8. Conclusion
- Appendix A. Interview Questionnaire
- Appendix B. Description of Interview Sample
- Appendix C. Record Prices for Art
- Appendix D. Multilevel Analysis of Prices for Art
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Backmatter