Development of the Art Market in England. Money as muse, 1730-1900
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- Author(s) Bayer, Thomas M, & John R Page
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2011
- Pages 267pp; illus
- Publisher Pickering & Chatto
- Place Published London
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Scholarly account and description of the emergence of London as the world's first modern art market, in the 18th and 19th centuries. Deals with the underlying 'economics' of the market as analysed through two data sets of auction sales and dealer based sales, its transaction patterns and 'trade operandi'. Chapters include: 1] 'The early stages. From Netherlands to Great Britain'; 2] 'The painter as homo economicus'; 3] 'The evolution of picture dealers'; 4] 'Formation of a nexus. A story of Christie's'; 5] 'Commoditization and the artist as producer'; 6] Product differentiation and the domestication of pictures'; etc