Kathryn Brown

Art Auctions

Spectacle and Value in the 21st Century

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This accessible new book offers a fresh view of art auctions, exploring their multifaceted role in today's international art market and their transformation into spectacular theatres of the contemporary art world. From glittering black-tie events to the anonymity of the digital realm, auctions stage the creation of value and can make or break artists' careers. They are a strange phenomenon: relics from the 18th century which remain at the heart of the art market. And yet art auctions have undergone huge change in the past decades, adapting to online formats, encroaching on territory which was once the preserve of galleries, and expanding ruthlessly into new regions and categories. Kathryn Brown's incisive new survey assesses the ongoing relevance of auctions to contemporary art markets and discusses the opportunities, controversies and conflicts of value to which they give rise.

Produktdetails

• Hot Topics in the Art World
• Verlag: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 104
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 137mm x 207mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 274g
• ISBN-13: 9781848226388
• ISBN-10: 1848226381
• Artikelnr.: 67640059

Autorenporträt

Kathryn Brown is Senior Lecturer in Art History and Visual Culture at Loughborough University and a specialist in modern and contemporary art, art markets, and digital art history. Her publications include Dialogues with Degas: Influence and Antagonism in Contemporary Art, Matisse: A Critical Life and (as Editor) The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities and Art History.