Capital Culture A Reader on Modernist Legacies, State Institutions, and the Value(s) of Art |
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| Author:
| Berland, Jody
Hornstein, Shelley |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7735-1725-7 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2000 |
| Publisher: | McGill-Queen's University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $110.00 |
Book Description:
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The status of art has undergone a tremendous shift in the last twenty years. While the value of a work of art once came from a dynamic but fundamentally stable consensus regarding its social and aesthetic status within its culture, this has increasingly been replaced by a more controversial role for art as a high-priced commodity in international markets - we live in a world where French-owned Van Goghs are sold in London to the Japanese for tens of millions of American dollars....
More DescriptionThe status of art has undergone a tremendous shift in the last twenty years. While the value of a work of art once came from a dynamic but fundamentally stable consensus regarding its social and aesthetic status within its culture, this has increasingly been replaced by a more controversial role for art as a high-priced commodity in international markets - we live in a world where French-owned Van Goghs are sold in London to the Japanese for tens of millions of American dollars. In Capital Culture leading cultural critics, art theorists and artists re-examine the nature of artistic value, bringing historical and critical perspectives to bear on contemporary controversies surrounding national identity, political economy, and government policy.